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Examples of broadsword
broadsword
MacMillan lays about with rhetorical broadsword and with fearless abandon.
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Fafhrd is a brawny, broadsword-wielding but surprisingly thoughtful northern barbarian.
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The broadsword cleaved its pig in half, while the cutlass almost managed to do the same.
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Of course, Sir Thomas was armed with a manly broadsword, even if he was wearing sissy tights.
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He broods convincingly and swings the broadsword with authority.
From the theepochtimes.com
Clint Wu, a silver-medal winner in the male weapons category, performs the rolling double broadsword.
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Then have Guy fly at the wicked seneschal, and spit him on the broadsword, and toss him into a plane tree.
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Using his dao, a deadly broadsword, he was a taker of heads.
From the guardian.co.uk
Tom rushes outside with a broadsword and drives them off and helps the old gentleman into the house.
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- A sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab
- A broadsword is a sword with a blade that is heavy, straight, and usually double-edged. A single-edged weapon sharing the other characteristics of a broadsword is called a backsword. The broadsword is designed for both cutting and thrusting, but primarily the former. ...
- The general two-edged blade popular from the 6th century onward. Ranging in length from 30" to 42" in length, the average sword weighs only three to four pounds. ...
- A broad design of sword used for cutting and slashing.
- A brooming throw that is released from behind the back or above the head
- 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
- Any sword intended for cutting instead of thrusting; sabre.
- Term usually stands for Medieval swords which is, in fact, wrong. This misnomer comes from Victorian collectors of the early 19th century.
- (en). A cage or basket hilted weapon with two edges, used from the 17^th century to the 20^th. The most famous example of this is the Scottish basket hilted broadsword but other variants exist from all over Europe. This term is incorrectly used to refer to arming swords. See also schiavona.
