Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person who carries a sword.
  • noun An American long-horned grasshopper, Conocephalus ensiger: so called from the long, straight, sword-shaped ovipositor. Also called swordtail.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of swordbearer.

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Examples

  • I was made drink-boy and sword-bearer to him, and in lieu of other name was called Ragnar Lodbrog.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • They talked together until Dunstan told him about saint Edmund, even as Edmund's sword-bearer had told the story to king Æthelstan when Dunstan was a young man and the sword-bearer a very old man.

    Time To Ditch St. George 2008

  • They talked together until Dunstan told him about saint Edmund, even as Edmund's sword-bearer had told the story to king Æthelstan when Dunstan was a young man and the sword-bearer a very old man.

    Archive 2008-04-20 2008

  • He killed many more and made twenty-six captive, among whom was the sword-bearer of Razates.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor 2009

  • Once upon a time there was a man, who was sword-bearer to one of the Kings, and he loved a damsel of the common sort.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • McCain wants to be the hero-savior sword-bearer of the Pentagon's geopolitical and national security interests in Iraq.

    Archive 2007-12-01 News from Mad Plato 2007

  • McCain wants to be the hero-savior sword-bearer of the Pentagon's geopolitical and national security interests in Iraq.

    JINGO BELLS IRAQ News from Mad Plato 2007

  • Emanuel but of Charles Albert; and it was on Charles Albert that mother and son had now fixed their eyes as on the sword-bearer of

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • Walking over to the sword-bearer, Martok took the Sword of Kahless from him and held it aloft.

    A Good Day To Die Keith R.A. DeCandido 1999

  • 'And, if you choose, I will stand beside you on High Druin as Fell's sword-bearer.'

    Ironhand's Daughter Gemmell, David 1995

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