sword

[sword]

A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

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An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharppointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

Noun
a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

n.
An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

n.
Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

n.
Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

n.
The military power of a country.

n.
One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Sword

Sword , n. [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver, Sw. sv'84rd, Dan. sv'91rd; of uncertain origin.] 1. An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharppointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties. 2. Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain.

She quits the balance, and resigns the sword.

3. Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

I came not to send peace, but a sword.

4. The military power of a country.

He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law.

5. (Weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer in London who carries a sword before the lord mayor when he goes abroad. -- Sword belt, a belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side. -- Sword blade, the blade, or cutting part, of a sword. -- Sword cane, a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. -- Sword dance. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers. Sir W. Scott. (b) A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them. -- Sword fight, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay. -- Sword grass. (Bot.) See Gladen. -- Sword knot, a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword. -- Sword law, government by the sword, or by force; violence. Milton. -- Sword lily. (Bot.) See Gladiolus. -- Sword mat (Naut.), a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture. -- Sword shrimp (Zo'94l.), a European shrimp (Pasiph'91a sivado) having a very thin, compressed body. -- Sword stick, a sword cane. -- To measure swords with one. See under Measure, v. t. -- To put to the sword. See under Put.

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharppointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

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Usage Examples

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.