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Glaive   Listen
noun
Glaive  n.  
1.
A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
2.
A sword; used poetically and loosely. "The glaive which he did wield."





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"Glaive" Quotes from Famous Books



... field of the fateful wrack, And half-dead was her heart for sorrow as she waded the swathes of the sword. Not far did she search the death-field ere she found her king and lord On the heap that his glaive had fashioned: not yet was his spirit past, Though his hurts were many and grievous, and his life-blood ebbing fast; And glad were his eyes and open as her wan face over him hung, And he spake: "Thou art sick with sorrow, and I would thou wert not so young; Yet ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung • William Morris
... defended himself full brave, Inspiring all with fear and wonder; Yes even 'till his trusty glaive At the gold hilt ...
— Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg - a ballad • Thomas J. Wise
... to his knee, With shawl-girt head and ornamented gun, And gold-embroider'd garments, fair to see; The crimson-scarfed men of Macedon; The Delhi with his cap of terror on, And crooked glaive; the lively, supple Greek, And swarthy Nubia's mutilated son; The bearded Turk, that rarely deigns to speak, Master of all around, ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt
... swift and dark Athwart that flickering wave? A spectre boat there seems to glide, With many an uplift glaive. ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... whose pride is fain to bear the rein, * Shall give thee what thou likest not and make thee feel his main: I have a handy limber spear full bright and keen of point, * Upon whose shaft the dam of Death her throny seat hath ta'en: I have a trenchant glaive of Hind; and, when I bare its face * Of scabbard" veil, from out its brow the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


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