OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12372

glaive

/ɡleɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
guja • lanza
A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.
At that moment Ilane swung the bladed staff—glaive, Kel remembered as it swung, they called it a glaive—in a wide side cut, slicing one pirate across the chest.
With the spear comes the use of the shield; yet the San Cristoval spearmen use no such defence, but turn off spears thrown at them with long curved glaives, and the shields in use…
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