glaive
suomi-englanti sanakirjaglaive englanniksi
(quote-book)|year=1919|page=18|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029810862/page/n53/mode/1up|oclc=26431547|passage=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.
A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) S. Hooper(nb...)|year=1786|page=52|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TGIvFfrxa9EC&pg=PA56|oclc=1179797755|passage=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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A sword, particularly a broadsword.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(quote-book)|title=The Works of Mr. William Shakespear|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=(...) University Press|Clarendon-Press|year=c. 1596–1599|year_published=1770|volume=III (Consisting of Historical Plays)|section=act IV, scene i|page=426|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dVBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA426|oclc=247020642|passage=Wherefore do you ſo ill tranſlate yourſelf, / Out of the ſpeech of peace, that bears ſuch grace, / Into the harſh and boiſt'rous tongue of war? / Turning your books to glaives, your ink to blood, / Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine / To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?|footer=(small)'' (1623), the word is rendered as ''graues'' (''graves'').
(RQ:Thomson Castle of Indolence)
(quote-book)|edition=11th|location=London|publisher=(...) Millar|Andrew Millar,(nb...)|year=1750|volume=I|section=stanza XXI|page=215|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7kDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA215|oclc=221377407|passage=Thus furth he drew his truſty glaive, / While thouſands all arround, / Drawn frae their ſheaths glanſt in the ſun, / And loud the bougills ſound.
(RQ:Thompson Works)
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