A weapon adapted for cutting and thrusting, consisting of a handle or hilt with a cross-guard, and a straight or curved blade with either one or two…

The blade of a sword or similar weapon, and hence (like ‘blade’) the sword itself. A sword. (Cf. the poetical use of ‘blade’.) A poetical use…

poetic. A cutting weapon or tool; in Middle English also a lance.

An iron weapon; a sword. Cf. sense 2a. Obsolete.

A sword.

A weapon of war, esp. a sword. archaic.

A brand, a sword. Apparently only in Caxton.

A name given to a sword.

A sword.

allusively (chiefly poetic and literary). A sword. Obsolete.

A sword. Obsolete.

Taken by Spenser, and by Quarles after him, in the sense of: A sword.

Short for Toledo blade or sword: A sword or sword-blade made at Toledo, or of the kind made there.

A short single-edged sword, with a slightly curved convex blade, used by the ancient Greeks.

In contemptuous use: A sword.

A sword. (Chiefly contemptuous.)

Often used as the proper name of a sword personified; esp. that of a bully or swash-buckler.

slang. A sword. Cf. pigsticker, n. 2. Obsolete.

A rapier or sword. slang. Obsolete.

transferred. A sword. Also attributive.

A toasting-fork. Humorously, a rapier or similar weapon. Cf. cheese-toaster n. at cheese, n.1 compounds 2.

a fork used for toasting bread, etc.; figurative a rapier or sword.

A sword; a weapon for slashing.

Originally slang. Something resembling the blade of a cheese-cutter in shape; spec. †a sword (obsolete). Cf. compounds 1.

A double-edged sword with a wide blade, used in Sikhism for ceremonial purposes.

(a) a long-handled fork for toasting cheese on a fire; (hence) †a sword (obsolete); (b) a metal appliance for making cheese on toast beside a fire…

figurative. Applied to something (material or immaterial) light, trifling, or flimsy; occasionally contemptuously to a spear or lance.