Glaive

Quick meaning: Glaive is a noun meaning (loosely or poetic, archaic) A sword, particularly a broadsword.

Meaning

(loosely or poetic, archaic) A sword, particularly a broadsword.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
2. (historical) A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.

Example Sentences

[T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.

Thus furth he drew his truſty glaive, / While thouſands all arround, / Drawn frae their ſheaths glanſt in the ſun, / And loud the bougills ſound.

At that moment Ilane swung the bladed staff—glaive, Kel remembered as it swung, they called it a glaive—in a wide side cut, slicing one pirate across the chest.

With the spear comes the use of the shield; yet the San Cristoval spearmen use no such defence, but turn off spears thrown at them with long curved glaives, and the shields in use in Florida are not made in that island.

Word Forms

• glaives
• glave

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glave, gladius, glim, glent, glade, guisarme.

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