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English
Etymology
From Middle English thwahandswerd, to hond swerd, twa hand swerde, twohande sworde.
Noun
two-hand sword (plural two-hand swords)
- A sword with a handle or grip that is intended to be grasped with both hands.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Come with thy two-hand sword.
1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Volume 3, Chapter 2, Section 1, p. 257:Faria on the other side […] with a zealous feruour reached Coia Acem, such a blow with a two hand Sword on his Head-piece of Maile, that he sunke to the ground […]
- 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume I, Chapter 6, p. 111,
- Charlie, growing wroth, squeezed the Lady Jane so strait with the left arm, that she was forced to cry out; and putting his right over his shoulder, he drew out his tremendous two-hand sword
1963, H. Beam Piper, chapter 4, in Space Viking, New York: Ace Books, page 18:He stepped forward as he spoke, and his esquire gave him the two-hand Sword of State, heavy enough to behead a bisonoid.
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