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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