glaive

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɡleɪv/

Noun

historical obsolete archaic broadly poetic

(obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. / (historical) A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.

Japanese Meaning

（旧語・歴史的）先細かく鋭い先端を持つ軽量な槍、またはそれに類する武器。 / （歴史的）長い柄の先に大きな刃が固定されている武器で、その刃の縁は外側に曲線を描く。

What is this buttons?

Before dawn the veteran trooper cleaned his glaive and inspected its long, sharp-pointed head.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

夜明け前、老練の兵士は長くて鋭い先端を持つ軽い槍を磨き、それを点検した。

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Sense（1）

(obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.

The lance, or glaive as it is often called, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was quite straight and smooth; a vamplate was added in the fourteenth, small at first but larger later, for the protection of the right arm.

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Sense（2）

The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. … In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives.

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