Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A claymore mine.
- noun A large, double-edged broadsword formerly used by Scottish Highlanders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun . The name, in the Highlands of Scotland, of the heavy two-handed sword.
- noun A name given inaccurately in the eighteenth century to the basket-hilted broadsword made to be used with one hand, and closely resembling the cuirassier's broadsword of the seventeenth century in England.
- noun A soldier armed with a claymore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large two-handed sword historically used by the
Scottish Highlanders . - noun The Scottish basket-hilted
broadsword used during theearly modern period.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders
- noun an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“I used to like the big sword claymore, but now … now they have to make them all splody and full of — what do you call that stuff, Nemain?”
A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006
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The Highlanders love to use cold steel; the claymore was their old weapon, and the bayonet is its nearest equivalent in modern war.
A Minstrel in France Harry Lauder 1910
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I dropped a claymore land mine right in front of him, and he still knifed me, said Spc.
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H, Carefully place claymore mine curved side towards the Bear.
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Claims went back to unit after escape, treatment, and took a DH18 claymore hit.
Eugene Giese 2010
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I dropped a claymore land mine right in front of him, and he still knifed me, said Spc.
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H, Carefully place claymore mine curved side towards the Bear.
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La Forge was amused to note that where Picard used to have a fish tank, Scotty had a shield and a couple of claymore swords.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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I remember being pretty amazed by just how deadly the claymore was - might have been the deadliest melee weapon they showed, if I recall correctly.
More Odds, More Ends grrm 2010
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La Forge was amused to note that where Picard used to have a fish tank, Scotty had a shield and a couple of claymore swords.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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