glaive

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IPA（発音記号）

/ɡleɪv/

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歴史的 廃用 古語 広義 詩語

(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.

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

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意味（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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意味（2）

(historical) A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.

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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意味（3）

(loosely or poetic, archaic) A sword, particularly a broadsword.

[T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.

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glaives （ plural ）