{"id":13602,"date":"2018-01-04T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13602"},"modified":"2018-01-04T08:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:16:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/04\/word-of-the-day-296\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Glaive<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/weapon.askdefine.com\">weapon<\/a> formerly used, consisting of a <a href=\"https:\/\/large.askdefine.com\">large\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blade.askdefine.com\">blade<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/fix.askdefine.com\">\u00a0fix<\/a>ed on the end of a <a href=\"https:\/\/pole.askdefine.com\">pole<\/a>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.askdefine.com\">edge<\/a> was on the <a href=\"https:\/\/outside.askdefine.com\">outside<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/curve.askdefine.com\">curve<\/a>.\n<dl>\n<dt>Quotations<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li>1786, The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askdefine.com\/search?q=Welch\">Welch<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askdefine.com\/search?q=Glaive\">\u00a0Glaive<\/a> is a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/bill.askdefine.com\">bill<\/a>, sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/reckon.askdefine.com\">reckon<\/a>ed among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askdefine.com\/search?q=pole%20axe\">pole axe<\/a>s. \u2014 Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<li>A light <a href=\"https:\/\/lance.askdefine.com\">lance<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/long.askdefine.com\">long<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sharp.askdefine.com\">sharp<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/point.askdefine.com\">point<\/a>ed <a href=\"https:\/\/head.askdefine.com\">head<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(poetically or loosely) A <a href=\"https:\/\/sword.askdefine.com\">sword<\/a>.\n<dl>\n<dt>The glaive which he did wield. Spenser.<\/dt>\n<dt><em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/glaive.askdefine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AskDefine<\/a>]<\/em><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mentioned by my Arts Editor when I asked whether or not prosecutor Hamilton Burger ever considered just pulling a gun out and shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perry_Mason_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perry Mason<\/a>. She suggested they&#8217;d go at it with glaives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3c\/Glaives_by_Wendelin_Boeheim.jpg\/450px-Glaives_by_Wendelin_Boeheim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"322\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glaive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glaive: A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large\u00a0blade\u00a0fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outsidecurve. Quotations 1786, The Welch\u00a0Glaive is a kind of bill, sometimes reckoned among the pole axes. \u2014 Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52. A light \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/04\/word-of-the-day-296\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13605,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions\/13605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}