glaive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.

   “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.”

2. isim A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.

   “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.”

3. isim A sword, particularly a broadsword.

   “[T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.”