Definition of sword

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Sword (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties..

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Portglave :: Portglave (n.) A sword bearer.
Machete :: Machete (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword..
Fence :: Fence (v. i.) To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only..
Naked :: Naked (a.) Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword..
Manual :: Manual (a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.)..
Haft :: Haft (n.) A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt..
Guard :: Guard (v. t.) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.
Gladiature :: Gladiature (n.) Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest.
Furbish :: Furbish (v. t.) To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear..
Pilcher :: Pilcher (n.) A scabbard, as of a sword..
Chasseur :: Chasseur (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword..
Stramineous :: Stramazoun (n.) A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
Fencing :: Fencing (n.) The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2..
Sabre :: Sabre (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword..
Half-sword :: Half-sword (n.) Half the length of a sword; close fight.
Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..
Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) The cutlass fish.
Grasp :: Grasp (n.) The handle of a sword or of an oar.
Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword..
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