sword
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sword/sɔːd/
▶noun
- 1 a weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard, used for thrusting or striking and often worn as part of ceremonial dress.
■ (the sword) literary military power; violence.
- 2 (swords) one of the suits in a tarot pack.
– phrases
beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares devote resources to peaceful rather than warlike ends. [with biblical allusion to Is. 2:4 and Mic. 4:3.]
put to the sword kill, especially in war.
beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares devote resources to peaceful rather than warlike ends. [with biblical allusion to Is. 2:4 and Mic. 4:3.]
put to the sword kill, especially in war.
– origin OE sw(e)ord, of Gmc origin.
'sword' also found in these Oxford entries:
accolade
- baldric
- bilbo
- bokken
- brand
- broadsword
- claymore
- curtana
- cutlass
- Damascus steel
- disengage
- double-edged
- dub
- ensiform
- épée
- espada
- falchion
- flag
- foible
- foil
- forte
- frog
- gladiator
- gladiolus
- glaive
- hara-kiri
- hilt
- iris
- katana
- kendo
- kirpan
- moment
- pineapple
- pommel
- put
- rapier
- sabre
- scabbard
- scimitar
- seif
- sheath
- sheathe
- shell
- single stick
- small sword
- spade
- sparaxis
- spay
- swash
