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Definition of Glaive

1. n. A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp- pointed head.

Definition of Glaive

1. Noun. A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve. ¹

2. Noun. A light lance with a long sharp-pointed head. ¹

3. Noun. (context: poetically or loosely) A sword. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glaive

1. a sword [n -S] : GLAIVED [adj] - See also: sword

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaive

Literary usage of Glaive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"Though beaten she is Bravely they fought who charged when brave, And still she grips the soldier's glaive, And honors still the soldier's grave ! ..."

2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Those princes leap to ground, out of their war-carts! Taking their hands, which touch his glaive, for both Those are his friends, ..."

3. A History of English Rhythms by Edwin Guest (1838)
"But laf, in these cases, is clearly the Icelandic lauf-i, a sword, a glaive. We thus get phrases that have a meaning; the old glaive, the hereditary glaive, ..."

4. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"The origin of the use of the word glaive in the sense of a curved knife with one or more spikes, as in glaive-Guisarme, may be traced perhaps by the ..."

5. The Chronicles of Froissart by Jean Froissart, George Campbell Macaulay (1895)
"At the last the abbot took the glaive in his hands and drew it so to ¡ him, that at last he set hands on sir : Henry's arm, and drew it so sore that be I ..."

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