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单词 broadsword
释义 broadsword|ˈbrɔːdsɔəd|
[f. broad a. + sword.]
‘A cutting sword with a broad blade’ (J.). Also attrib.
[a1000Byrhtnoth 15 (Gr.) Ða he healdan mihte brad swurd.]c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. an. 1559 The master of Lindsay struck him on the head with a broad⁓sword.1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 243 The Highland broad-sword is still called an Andrew Ferrara.1799Rowlandson (title) Hungarian and Highland Broadsword Exercise.1843Prescott Mexico I. 359 They killed two of the horses, cutting through their necks with their stout broadswords..at a blow.
b. transf. (pl.) Men armed with broadswords.
1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 330 Lochiel, surrounded by more than six hundred broadswords.
c. Comb., as broadsword-shaped adj.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 22 The scapula, a broadsword-shaped bone.
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