1) Blade 2) Brand 3) Dungeons and dragons weapon 4) Excalibur 5) Exclusively Saxon word 6) Exclusively Anglo word 7) Steel 8) Sword 9) Used to cut rather than stab 10) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 11) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Claymore
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A military sword and fencing weapon popular in the 18th-19th centuries, similar to a heavy sabre. Beginning only in the late 20th century, this term came to be inappropriately applied to almost any straight-bladed, double-edged, single-handed cutting sword, especially of the Medieval and Renaissance eras.
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• (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
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A cutting sword with a flat, wide, double-edged blade.
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A term popularly misapplied as a generic synonym for medieval swords. The now popular misnomer "broadsword" as a term for medieval blades actually originated with Victorian collectors in the early 19th century.
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A cutting sword with a flat, wide, double-edged blade.
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Broad'sword` noun A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. « I heard the
broadsword's deadly clang.
Sir W. Scott. »
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a military sword and fencing weapon popular in the 18th-19th centuries, similar to a heavy sabre; any straight-bladed, double- edged, single-handed cutting sword of the post-medieval period
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A broadsword is a sword with a broad blade, one or both sides of which was sharpened, designed chiefly for cutting. They were used by some British cavalry and Highland infantry. The claymore was a broadsword. The broadsword was common until the 16th century when it started to be displaced by the rapier.
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HMS Broadsword is a British Broadsword Class frigate of 3500 tons displacement launched in 1976. HMS Broadsword is powered by two Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, two Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines and four diesel generators providing a top speed of 30 knots and a range of 4500 miles at 18 knots. She carries a crew of 222 including 17 off...
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n] - a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges
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noun a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab
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a sword having a straight, broad, flat blade.
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