"Gisarm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by the High Court were then measured and attested. They consisted of the long sword, the short sword, the dagger, the mace, and a weapon known as the hand-gisarm, or glave-lot—a heavy swordlike blade eight palms long, a palm in breadth, and riveted to a stout handle of wood three ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle |
