claymore

• A second claymore, less elaborate, would make the mold for the weapon Macduff would wear. —  Light Thickens - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 33: 1982
• A single epithet, if it be a choice one, can indicate the scene of action as vividly and far more effectively than ten thousand stanzas; and, unless you are a tailor and proud of your handiwork, what is the use of dilating upon the complexion of a warrior's breeches, when the claymore is whistling around his ears? —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• Henry was armed with a heavy claymore, the edge of which betokened that it had once seen much service in the wars of the youth's Scottish ancestors. —  Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
• A light dress rapier obviously must do its business quickly if it was not to suffer from the flailing blow of the claymore, and yet Count Victor did not wish to increase the evil impression of his first visit to this country by a second homicide, even in self-defence. —  Doom Castle
• He then drew his claymore, and cut the cords which bound the intended victim. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.

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