Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lance or spear.
- noun A sword; a broadsword; a falchion.
- noun A weapon like the halberd, having a long cutting blade with a sharp point fixed upon a staff: sometimes called a Welsh glave, from its supposed origin.
- noun A slipper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
glaive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
glaive .
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Examples
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But as he attempted to pass the gate, a stalwart guard stepped forward, presenting a formidable-looking glave.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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The guard unsuspiciously handed the glave to the jester, who immediately turned it upon the sentinel.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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The door quivered beneath the general onslaught of the now exultant outlaws, and, as a glave shattered the panel the jester threw himself over the casement.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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They gave her husband an excuse for his venerable silk hat and his gilded glave.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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They consisted of the long sword, the short sword, the dagger, the mace, and a weapon known as the hand-gisarm, or glave-lot -- a heavy swordlike blade eight palms long, a palm in breadth, and riveted to a stout handle of wood three feet long.
Men of Iron 1891
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They consisted of the long sword, the short sword, the dagger, the mace, and a weapon known as the hand-gisarm, or glave-lot -- a heavy swordlike blade eight palms long, a palm in breadth, and riveted to a stout handle of wood three feet long.
Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882
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Sastoji se od 4 nezavisne dozirne glave i ima mogue?
We Blog A Lot 2009
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"zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; featured-posts = 1; green = 1; nickname = james-glave; entry_id = 212390; british-columbia = 1; carbon-emissions = 1; hydro-electric-power = 1; privatization = 1; renewable-energy = 1; run-of-river = 1",
James Glave: Backstage at a Run-of-River Green-Energy Project 2009
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"zone_info": "huffpost. media/blog; media = 1; nickname = kevin-smokler; entry_id = 171470; authors = 1; books = 1; booktours = 1; events = 1; jerry-stahl = 1; johnathan-keats = 1; mary-roach = 1; readings = 1; thomas-glave = 1",
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"zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; politics = 1; world = 1; nickname = james-glave; entry_id = 258025; exile = 1; expats = 1; health-care = 1; healthcare-reform = 1; single-payer = 1",
James Glave: Private Health Care is Stranding U.S. Expats Overseas 2009
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