Word Of The Day

Glaive:

1. A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outsidecurve.

   Quotations

   • 1786, The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, sometimes reckoned among the pole axes. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52.

2. A light lance with a longsharp–pointed head.
3. (poetically or loosely) A sword.

   The glaive which he did wield. Spenser.

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Mentioned by my Arts Editor when I asked whether or not prosecutor Hamilton Burger ever considered just pulling a gun out and shooting Perry Mason. She suggested they’d go at it with glaives.

Source: Wikipedia