broadsword

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “One version of the broadsword, the Highland broadsword, was adopted as the national sword of Scotland. Another, the schiavona, was Italy's version of the weapon.”

2. isim A person armed with such a sword.
3. isim Synonym of longsword.

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

4. isim 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.”

5. fiil To attack or kill with a broadsword.

   “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.”