Broadsword

//ˈbɹɔd.sɔɹd// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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 typically a basket hilt.

    "The principal distinction between the broadsword and the rapier is, that the latter is formed only for thrusting, while the former is adapted for cutting also. Indeed, those who use the broadsword are, in my opinion, too apt to neglect the use of the point, and to give their attention almost exclusively to the cuts."

  2. 2
    a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab wordnet
  3. 3
    A person armed with such a sword.
  4. 4
    Synonym of longsword. colloquial, often

    "The Brythunian's arm drew back; the ancient broadsword with its strange, clawed quillons arcked spinning through the air."

  5. 5
    A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it.

    "Cherokee "broadswords" and "dog-heads," or Iroquois wedding breads (paired like dumbbells) might be eaten and described by visitors, but apparently were not adapted by colonial farmers other than a few intermarried pioneers."

Verb
  1. 1
    To attack or kill with a broadsword. rare, transitive

    "She’d met her first black knight—a pock-faced man in his sixties, wearing an ugly brown hat—and escaped from him without being broadsworded to death."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From broad + sword.

Etymology 2

From broad + sword.

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