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A broadsword, or basket-hilted sword, is an early modern European sword. Broadsword may also refer to: A type of medieval arming sword with a broad blade, designed more for cutting than thrusting; Chinese broadsword, a single-edged Chinese sword; Scottish broadsword, a Scottish basket-hilted sword
The Elizabethan long sword (cf. George Silver [32] and Joseph Swetnam) is a single-handed "cut-and-thrust" sword with a 4 ft (1.2 m) blade [23] similar to the long rapier. "Let thy (long) Rapier or (long) Sword be foure foote at the least, and thy dagger two foote."
2.4 Western and Central Asian swords. 2.4.1 Post ... Greek single-edged straight or slightly curved broadsword – blade 60–80 cm (24–31 in) – for ...
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
Verminfate: A broadsword wielded by the badger lord Rawnblade Widestripe. Rapscallion sword: Wielded by the Firstblade of the Rapscallion Army. One side of the blade was wavy, to convey the oceans, the other flat, to convey land—when thrown in the air, whatever side it landed on dictated how the army would travel.
Mythic Entertainment (formerly BioWare Mythic, EA Mythic, Inc., and Interworld Productions) was an American video game developer based in Fairfax, Virginia that was most widely recognized for developing the 2001 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot.
Spadroon is a term used to categorize a type of sword that is in between a small sword (which thrusts only) and the heavier-bladed broadsword. They may have single- or double-edged blades, and hilt types ranging from a simple stirrup guard, to double shells, and even further protection to the sides of the hand.