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A weapon of the middle ages consisting of a scythe-shaped blade with a long handle, and differing from the war-scythe in having the sharp edge convex. It is often confused with the guisarme and the halberd. Also falsarium.

She passed, with her two gentlemen, but the French sentinel barred the way, holding his fauchard thwartwise. — A Monk of Fife
He dropped his fauchard over his shoulder, and stood aside, staring impudently at the Maiden, and muttering foul words. — A Monk of Fife
On the drawbridge, standing sentinel, was a French man-at-arms, a young man of my own age, armed with a long fauchard, which we call a bill or halberd, a weapon not unlike the Lochaber axes of the Highlandmen. — A Monk of Fife
We gripped and swayed for a moment, then the staff of his fauchard coming between his legs, he tripped and fell, I above him; our weight soused against the low pales of the bridge side, that were crazy and old; there was a crash, and I felt myself in mid-air, failing to the moat far below us. — A Monk of Fife