claymoren.

/kleɪmɔː/

Forms: Also 1700s glaymore, cly-more.

Etymology: < Gaelic claidheamh /ˈklaiə̃v/ mòr ‘great sword’. Being two words in Gaelic, it has two accents: sometimes one, sometimes the other, has the main stress in English.

a. Historical. The two-edged broadsword of the ancient Scottish Highlanders. Also (inexactly, but very commonly) the basket-hilted broadsword introduced in 16th cent., which was frequently single-edged.The claymore was not, except in extraordinary instances, two-handed.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > broadsword

billOE

falchion1303

glaive1488

broadswordc1565

glay1568

foutch1580

Andrew1618

curtan1697

Ferrara1763

claymore1772

1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 289 See here a Cly-more, or great two-handed sword.

1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 15 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 255 The broad-sword now used..called the Glaymore, (i.e. the great sword).

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 264 Their arms were anciently the Glaymore, [etc.].

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 536 By red claymores, and muskets knell.

1803 T. Campbell Poems 4 When Albin her claymore indignantly draws.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain Introd. vii. 10 Its heroes draw no broad claymore.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 14 His nodding plume and broad claymore.

b. elliptical. A man armed with a claymore.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > sword > specific type

bilbo1602

bilbo-man1619

sabre1836

sabreur1845

claymore1849

bolo-man1901

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 553 He might then hope to have four or five thousand claymores at his command.

2. A type of anti-personnel mine. In full claymore mine.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine > anti-personnel mine

S-mine1944

Schu mine1945

claymore mine1962

1962 Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) 72/2 Claymore, name given to a type of antipersonnel mine designed to produce a directionalized, fan shaped pattern of fragments.

1965 M. W. Browne New Face of War iv. 35 American arms designers have produced a mine called a ‘Claymore’, which has found wide use here [i.e. in Vietnam]. The Claymore, curved like a horseshoe, has an optical sighting device and hurls a blast of shrapnel directionally at the point toward which it has been pre-aimed.

1966 New Statesman 9 Sept. 341/1 One Claymore mine would finish this mob.

1966 New Scientist 17 Nov. 369/1 The claymore, whose effects can be devastating among close-packed ranks of men, was invented to deal with the wave formations of Chinese during the Korean war.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	claymore
释义	claymoren. /kleɪmɔː/ Forms: Also 1700s glaymore, cly-more. Etymology: < Gaelic claidheamh /ˈklaiə̃v/ mòr ‘great sword’. Being two words in Gaelic, it has two accents: sometimes one, sometimes the other, has the main stress in English. 1. a. Historical. The two-edged broadsword of the ancient Scottish Highlanders. Also (inexactly, but very commonly) the basket-hilted broadsword introduced in 16th cent., which was frequently single-edged.The claymore was not, except in extraordinary instances, two-handed. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > broadsword billOE falchion1303 glaive1488 broadswordc1565 glay1568 foutch1580 Andrew1618 curtan1697 Ferrara1763 claymore1772 1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 289 See here a Cly-more, or great two-handed sword. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 15 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 255 The broad-sword now used..called the Glaymore, (i.e. the great sword). 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 264 Their arms were anciently the Glaymore, [etc.]. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 536 By red claymores, and muskets knell. 1803 T. Campbell Poems 4 When Albin her claymore indignantly draws. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain Introd. vii. 10 Its heroes draw no broad claymore. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 14 His nodding plume and broad claymore. b. elliptical. A man armed with a claymore. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > sword > specific type bilbo1602 bilbo-man1619 sabre1836 sabreur1845 claymore1849 bolo-man1901 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 553 He might then hope to have four or five thousand claymores at his command. 2. A type of anti-personnel mine. In full claymore mine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine > anti-personnel mine S-mine1944 Schu mine1945 claymore mine1962 1962 Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) 72/2 Claymore, name given to a type of antipersonnel mine designed to produce a directionalized, fan shaped pattern of fragments. 1965 M. W. Browne New Face of War iv. 35 American arms designers have produced a mine called a ‘Claymore’, which has found wide use here [i.e. in Vietnam]. The Claymore, curved like a horseshoe, has an optical sighting device and hurls a blast of shrapnel directionally at the point toward which it has been pre-aimed. 1966 New Statesman 9 Sept. 341/1 One Claymore mine would finish this mob. 1966 New Scientist 17 Nov. 369/1 The claymore, whose effects can be devastating among close-packed ranks of men, was invented to deal with the wave formations of Chinese during the Korean war. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1772
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