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Definition of 'sword'English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Derived terms
* bastardsword
* broadsword
* double-edged sword
* fall on one’s sword
* longsword
* pork sword
* put to the sword
* samurai sword
* short sword
* sword bayonet
* swordbill
* sword cane
* swordcraft
* sword dance
( rel-mid)
* sword fern
* swordfish
* sword grass
* sword knot
* sword lily
* sword of Damocles
* swordbearer, sword-bearer
* swordbearing, sword-bearing
* swordplay
* swordsman
* swordsmanship
* swordstick
* sword-swallower
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Coordinate terms
* (weaponry) bayonet, claymore, cutlass, epee, , falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan
Similar to 'sword'screed, shared, surd, sard, shred, shroud, shrewd, sward, shard, scared, soured, scored, seared, schrod, scrod, soared, shored, sherd, scried, sired, sord, sarod, shrowd, scrid, sheard, saried, scard, scarid, shrood, scurid, soord, sirred, sored, shired
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