sword breaker

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Noun

sword breaker (plural sword breakers)

  1. Rare form of sword-breaker.
    • 1910, Henry Morse Stephens Collection: Catalogues of the Wallace Collection, page 139:
      [] partly back edged and serrated, with strong ricasso, pierced with two semicircular sword breakers. Italian (probably Neapolitan), about 1650. (346)
    • 1924, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm), Catalogues- American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc:
      Left-hand dagger French, 1600 / Flattened pommel; wire-bound grip; quillons curve outward, and at right angles to them are parallel with the blade are two projections which serve as sword breakers; attached to the cross-piece is small shell guard with heart-shaped and circular perforations; flamboyant blade, 12" long, with mark  []