a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long usu sharp-pointed and sharp-edged blade
(the sword) literary the use of force, e.g. in war
The pen is mightier than the sword — E G Bulwer-Lytton
something, e.g. the beak of a swordfish, that resembles a sword
cross swords
to fight or argue
put somebody to the sword
to kill somebody with a sword
[Old English sweord]