broadsword

noun

broad·sword ˈbrȯd-ˌsȯrd

Synonyms of broadsword next

: a large heavy sword with a broad blade for cutting rather than thrusting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The hands are broadsword-shaped, with a stainless steel build that contrasts nicely with the dial. —

Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 7 July 2022 In 2020, British teenagers and children wielding metal detectors discovered a pair of rare, 1,000-year-old coins and a late 17th- or early 18th-century English broadsword. —

Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020 Cloud isn’t exactly discreet either, brandishing a broadsword as long as his body. —

Joshua Adams, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020 Cavill is Geralt of Rivia, a mutant slayer of monsters, gruffly navigating a world of broadswords and bloody battles. —

Brian Lowry, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019 Above his head is an arm holding a colonial-era broadsword believed to be the sword of Myles Standish, a Plymouth Colony military commander known in part for killing Native Americans. —

BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019 The festival’s entrance was marked by a sixty-foot-tall portrait of Attila himself, wielding an immense broadsword and standing in front of what was either a bonfire or a sky illuminated by the baleful glow of war. —

Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019 With their shields held overhead, soldiers would climb ladders held against the walls or rush through breaches, their arms furiously swinging two-handed broadswords and battle-axes or charging forward with long sharp pikes in front of them. —

William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 With their shields held overhead, soldiers would climb ladders held against the walls or rush through breaches, their arms furiously swinging two-handed broadswords and battle-axes or charging forward with long sharp pikes in front of them. —

William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017 See More

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