Broadsword

Quick meaning: Broadsword is a noun meaning A person armed with such a sword.

Meaning

A person armed with such a sword.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, often fantasy) Synonym of longsword.
2. A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it.
3. (transitive, rare) To attack or kill with a broadsword.
4. (history) A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and typically a basket hilt.

Example Sentences

The Brythunian's arm drew back; the ancient broadsword with its strange, clawed quillons arcked spinning through the air.

One version of the broadsword, the Highland broadsword, was adopted as the national sword of Scotland. Another, the schiavona, was Italy's version of the weapon.

Well, after awhile we just sat right down there on the ground by that fire beside the creek, and we ate some of those broadswords, hot and fresh, and I tell you, that was the best bean bread I ever ate.

Cherokee "broadswords" and "dog-heads," or Iroquois wedding breads (paired like dumbbells) might be eaten and described by visitors, but apparently were not adapted by colonial farmers other than a few intermarried pioneers.

Word Forms

• broadswords
• broad sword
• broadswording
• broadsworded

Synonyms for broadsword

Depending on context, synonyms include longsword, backsword.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include backsword, brond, sword, brandiron, broady, smallsword.

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