单词 | bastard sword |
释义 | > as lemmasbastard sword bastard sword n. a sword with a blade somewhat shorter than that of a longsword, capable of being wielded by either one hand or two; cf. sense B. 4a.Now chiefly in historical or fantasy fiction. ΚΠ 1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 35 I bequethe to Symond Wrenchin..my Bastard Swerd. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. clxxxvii. sig. J.iiiv Yf thy men haue bastarde swordes, or twohanded swordes,..lette them gyye downryght strokes. 1617 J. Swetnam Schoole Sci. Defence xii. 187/2 The Bastard Sword, the which Sword is something shorter then a long Sword, and yet longer then a Short-sword. 1785 G. Steevens Note on Merry Wives of Windsor 260 in I. Reed Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) I. The weapons they used were..two swords, the two-hand sword, the bastard sword, [etc.]. 1921 Amer. Art News 21 May 8/1 The XV Century ‘Bastard’ sword of Italian workmanship, which at one time was one of the gems of the Knaresborough collection. 2011 G. R. R. Martin Dance with Dragons 111 Jon clasped the hilt of the bastard sword with both hands and raised it high. < as lemmas |
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