broadsword

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  1. noun A sword with a wide, usually two-edged blade that is designed for slashing rather than thrusting.

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  • You could take all four pistols and use them to juggle an enemy in the air before taking to the skies yourself with a quick flap of the wings and pulling out a broadsword (from where?) to follow it up with some slice and dice action. —  Computer And Video Games
  • The Carriers vary in type, requiring you to switch Ken's weapons on occasion and offering some semblance of strategy (your heavy, two-handed broadsword is much more adept at crushing the shield-bearing Carriers you face). —  1UP RSS feed
  • Gibbons is poised Thursday to apply the same blunt instrument to the budget crisis that he has used throughout, eschewing a scalpel for a broadsword, preferring amputation to reconstruction. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Bringing along a Chinese broadsword, machete or taser gun is usually sufficient to keep security guards and good Samaritans at bay. —  Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
  • This production features mask work and broadsword-driven stage combat. —  BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
 

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/ˈbrɔdsoʊrd/
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