Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saber carried by the people of northern India, as the Sikhs.
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- noun A type of curved
sword used in India.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some carried a short bent sword called a tulwar, with shield on shoulder.
The Young Rajah William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Lloyd shares what he has learned about the sabre after wielding his Moghul Indian tulwar — namely that curved one-handed swords are not equivalent to straight ones:
The Sabre « Isegoria 2008
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And in the doorway to the dining-room, Mrs Captain MacDowall was huddled grotesquely against the jamb, with a tulwar pinning her to the wall; clenched in one hand was a small vase, with the flowers it had held scattered on the boards - I realised that she must have snatched it up as a weapon.
Fiancée 2010
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Well, as a rule anyone can insult me and see how much it pays him, especially if he's large and ugly and carrying a tulwar* (* A sword.).
Fiancée 2010
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It was alleged, for example, that Riding-Master Langdale's (not Langley's, as Flashman says) little daughter was tortured to death; she had, in fact, been killed by a tulwar blow while sleeping on her charpoy (see the Rev.T. C. Smith's letter, dated Meerut, December 16, 1857).
Fiancée 2010
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I stepped into the Mall as he rode up; he had a bloody tulwar in one hand, a foolish animal grin on his filthy black face, and the grey coat of the 3rd Cavalry on his back.
Fiancée 2010
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Two brace of pistols, a Malay creese, and a tulwar, sharp on both sides, and very nearly six feet in length, completed this elegant costume.
Burlesques 2006
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I felt a fierce grin on my face and I turned around to nod my thanks to Luccio — and saw the Corpsetaker come out from under a veil of magic and swing her drawn tulwar at Luccio's back.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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She cut down two more specters with needles of flame, contemptuously slapped aside another cut from Corpsetaker's tulwar, and then took the battle to the necromancer, grey cloak flying in the storm's wind, pressing her hard with the silver rapier and driving Corpsetaker back one step after another.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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She wore a curved sword on her belt, a heavy tulwar that looked ugly and murderous.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
bilby commented on the word tulwar
A weapon with the word war in the name :-/
June 17, 2022