Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An attendant or retainer armed with a glave.
  • noun A subordinate officer of the law, whose badge of office was the glave. Compare halberdier

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A sword bearer.

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