greatsword

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From great +‎ sword.

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greatsword (plural greatswords)

  1. Any generally straight-bladed double-edged sword large enough to require the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
    • 1851-1852, Appendix to the Congressional Globe for the First Session, Thirty-Second Congress: Containing Speeches and Important State Papers‎, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 213:
      It is the "red horse" which was sent forth upon the opening of the "second seal," to whose rider was given power "to take peace from the earth that they should kill one another; and there was also given unto him a greatsword."
    • 1910, Oliver Huckel, Richard Wagner, Siegfried: A Dramatic Poem‎, T.Y. Crowell Company, page 41:
      Shouting with joy, his shimmering greatsword.
    • 1959, Harry Gersh, These Are My People: A Treasury of Biographies of Heroes of the Jewish Spirit from Abraham to Leo Baeck‎, Behrman House, page 215:
      Wearing the pointed helmets of the Tatars over their embroidered skull caps, mounted on shaggy ponies, armed with greatswords, disemboweling daggers, and iron-pointed whips, they swept north and west, devastating the land.

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