Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The guard of a sword when made in the form of a bar at right angles with the blade.
- noun A similar defense mounted upon the shaft of a spear, usually not far below the head.
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Examples
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After much fileing and pounding, I was able to fit the cross-guard and make the para-cord handle.
Field & Stream 2009
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Forged for thrusting and throwing, the dagger had no cross-guard.
Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994
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'Now, below the loop, like the cross-guard of a Persian sword, two further stems grow from the gold.
Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990
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Hilt, cross-guard, and pommel were all plain and unornamented.
Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990
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With the steel naked in his hand, he hastened across the strand, and for one reckless instant longed to bury the blade to the cross-guard in his mistress's back.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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There was no cross-guard, only the elliptical base of the hilt, which extended a quarter of an inch all round the blade.
Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965
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The cross-guard of the sword is of metal, and is probably a reparation.
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He nodded approvingly, gripped it with his index finger crooked around the cross-guard, and advanced to meet Marnark of
Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934
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Of silver it was, wrought into the shape of a standing woman, her feet poised upon the small, chiselled cross-guard, her head forming the pommel; naked she stood in languorous pose, arms raised and hands locked behind her head.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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_ When borne as a charge, straight in the blade, pointed, and with a cross-guard.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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