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Welsh glaive (plural Welsh glaives)
- A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe.
1838, James Gregor Grant, Rufus, Or, The Red King: A Romance:there shall not come the twang of a Welsh bow, nor the glimmer of a Welsh glaive within a fair league of its battlements!
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