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单词 sword
释义 sword
I. \ˈsō(ə)rd, -ȯ(ə)rd, -ōəd, -ȯ(ə)d\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English swerd, sword, from Old English sweord; akin to Old High German swert sword, Old Norse sverth, Avestan xvara wound; basic meaning; to cut, stab
1.
 a. : a weapon with a long blade for cutting or thrusting set in a hilt usually terminating in a pommel and often having a tang or a protective guard where the blade joins the handle — see broadsword, cutlass, épée, estoc, rapier, saber, smallsword; compare bayonet, dagger, foil, knife, scimitar
 b. : a sword worn as one of the side arms of ceremonial regalia or displayed as a symbol of honor or authority
  < a ceremonial sword with the Queen's cipher on the blade and hilt — René Lecler >
  < had the diamonds removed from the sword of honor … and made into a necklace — R.A.H.N.Hood >
2.
 a.
  (1) : an instrument of destruction : a militant force
   < avarice … hath been the sword of our slain kings — Shakespeare >
   < tempering … conscience until it should become a sword with which to do effective battle against the vicious majority — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude >
  (2) : a combative spirit : struggle as a means of achieving a worthwhile objective
   < I have not come to bring peace, but a sword — Mt 10:34 (Revised Standard Version) >
   < this younger senator, whose sword is not yet sheathed in pragmatism — Marya Mannes >
 b. : military prowess : war especially as a means of settling disputes
  < hireling combatants sold their swords … to the best bidder — Sir Walter Scott >
  < the pen is mightier than the sword — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton >
3. : coercive power or jurisdiction
 < the magistrate … bears the sword of justice by the consent of the whole community — William Blackstone >
 < to the Church belong both swords, the spiritual and … the temporal — C.H.McIlwain >
4. : something that resembles a sword: as
 a. : swingle 1
 b. : the beak of the swordfish
 c. : one of the end bars by which the lay of a handloom is suspended, or one of the uprights supporting the lay of a power loom

- at swords' points
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
1. : to arm with a sword
2. : to wound or kill with or as if with a sword
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