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broadsword

English

Alternative forms

  • broad sword

Etymology

From broad +? sword.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?b???d.s??d/

Noun

broadsword (plural broadswords)

  1. (historical) A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and a basket hilt.
  2. A person armed with such a sword.
  3. (colloquial, often fantasy) Synonym of longsword

Translations

See also

  • falchion

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foinery

English

Etymology

foin +? -ery

Noun

foinery (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
    • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie
      By chaunce, in Livias modest company;
      When, after the god-saving ceremony,
      For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery;
      Out goes his rapier, and to Livia
      He shewes the ward by puncta reversa

References

  • foinery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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