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noun

Glaive n.

A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.

A sword; used poetically and loosely. "The glaive which he did wield."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glaive" Quotes from Famous Books

... now as fully familiar with the scene as ourselves, let him next, in imagination, people it, as on the occasion we have chosen for his introduction. It was a warm, sunny, day in the early part of July. The town itself was as quiet as if the glaive of war reposed in its sheath, and the inhabitants pursued their wonted avocations with the air of men who had nothing in common with the active interest which evidently dominated the more military portions of the scene. It was clear that among these latter some cause for excitement ...

— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair,— The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide; The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive, from targe and jack,— The next, all unreflected, shone On bracken green and cold grey stone. Fitz-James looked round—yet scarce believed The witness that his sight received; Such apparition well ...

— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous