Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who carries a sword.
- noun An American long-horned grasshopper, Conocephalus ensiger: so called from the long, straight, sword-shaped ovipositor. Also called
swordtail .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
swordbearer .
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Examples
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I was made drink-boy and sword-bearer to him, and in lieu of other name was called Ragnar Lodbrog.
Chapter 17 2010
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They talked together until Dunstan told him about saint Edmund, even as Edmund's sword-bearer had told the story to king Æthelstan when Dunstan was a young man and the sword-bearer a very old man.
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They talked together until Dunstan told him about saint Edmund, even as Edmund's sword-bearer had told the story to king Æthelstan when Dunstan was a young man and the sword-bearer a very old man.
Archive 2008-04-20 2008
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He killed many more and made twenty-six captive, among whom was the sword-bearer of Razates.
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Once upon a time there was a man, who was sword-bearer to one of the Kings, and he loved a damsel of the common sort.
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McCain wants to be the hero-savior sword-bearer of the Pentagon's geopolitical and national security interests in Iraq.
Archive 2007-12-01 News from Mad Plato 2007
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McCain wants to be the hero-savior sword-bearer of the Pentagon's geopolitical and national security interests in Iraq.
JINGO BELLS IRAQ News from Mad Plato 2007
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Emanuel but of Charles Albert; and it was on Charles Albert that mother and son had now fixed their eyes as on the sword-bearer of
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Walking over to the sword-bearer, Martok took the Sword of Kahless from him and held it aloft.
A Good Day To Die Keith R.A. DeCandido 1999
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'And, if you choose, I will stand beside you on High Druin as Fell's sword-bearer.'
Ironhand's Daughter Gemmell, David 1995
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