"Then, but for folly or Fate's adverse power, / his word had made us with our trusty glaive / lay bare the Argive ambush, and this hour / should Ilion stand, and thou, O Priam's lofty tower!"
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Glaive
//ɡleɪv//
Synonyms for "glaive" (2 found)
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Translations
47 translations across 26 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- глевія noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Breton
1 entries- kleze noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Bulgarian
1 entries- глефа noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 長柄刀 /长柄刀 noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Czech
2 entries- gléva noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- kůsa noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Esperanto
1 entries- fuŝardo noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
French
2 entries- glaive noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- épée tranchante noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Galician
2 entries- bisarma noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- cardeña noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
German
4 entries- Fauchard noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- Gläfe f, Gleve f) noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- Lanze noun (light lance)
- Pike noun (light lance)
Ido
1 entries- glavo noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Italian
1 entries- falcione noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Japanese
4 entries- グレイブ noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- 眉尖刀 noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- 薙刀 noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- 長刀 noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Korean
1 entries- 글레이브 noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gleivas noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Macedonian
1 entries- глејв noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Middle English
2 entries- gleyve noun (light lance)
- gleyve noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Old Armenian
2 entries- սուսեր noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- սուր noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Persian
2 entries- بلارک noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- کتاره noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Polish
3 entries- glewia noun (light lance)
- glewia noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- miecz noun ((loosely or poetic) sword)
Portuguese
1 entries- bisarma noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Russian
2 entries- гле́вия noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- гле́фа noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- глејв noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Slovene
1 entries- glefa noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Spanish
2 entries- guja noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- lanza noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Swedish
3 entries- glav noun (light lance)
- glav noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- glav noun ((loosely or poetic) sword)
Ukrainian
3 entries- гле́ва noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- гле́вія noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
- гле́фа noun (weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
These, stationed at the gates, with naked glaive, / shoulder to shoulder, guard the pass below. / Hearts leap afresh the royal halls to save, / and cheer our vanquished friends and reinspire the brave.
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The lance, or glaive as it is often called, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was quite straight and smooth; a vamplate was added in the fourteenth, small at first but larger later, for the protection of the right arm.
Source: wiktionary
The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. [...] In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives.
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