broad-sword

Socrates' main weapon as a soldier in the Athenian army was not a broad-sword.

Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

In ancient and medieval days, when men fought hand to hand, and physical endurance alone decided the day, the number of eminent leaders was greater; but, who conceives that Alexander, Xerxes, Caesar, or Hannibal would have been eminent as leaders of modern hosts, where gunpowder and engineering genius are the ministers of destruction, rather than the battle-ax and broad-sword?

The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 5: The Cookhouse Revolution ewillett 2008

A belt round his waist served at once to sustain the broad-sword which we have already mentioned, and to hold five or six arrows and bird-bolts, which were stuck into it on the right side, along with a large knife hilted with buck-horn, or, as it was then called, a dudgeon-dagger.

The Monastery 2008

I am ready to fight one, two, three, or twenty of them, at broad-sword, small-sword, single-stick, with fists if you please.

Burlesques 2006

One night, in Col, he strutted about the room with a broad-sword and target, and made a formidable appearance; and, another night, I took the liberty to put a large blue bonnet on his head.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

I afterwards heard that this length of arm was a circumstance on which he prided himself; that when he wore his native Highland garb, he could tie the garters of his hose without stooping; and that it gave him great advantage in the use of the broad-sword, at which he was very dexterous.

Rob Roy 2005

The commodore made no reply to this imperious injunction; but, dropping his pistol, and unsheathing his broad-sword in an instant, attacked our hero with such incredible agility, that if he had not made shift to ward off the stroke with his piece, the adventure, in all likelihood, would have turned out

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

The leading men of each clan were well armed with broad-sword, target, and fusee, to which all added the dirk, and most the steel pistol.

Waverley 2004

He was now about twenty years old, short in stature, but remarkably strong made, eminent for his feats upon holidays at foot-ball, and other gymnastic exercises; scarce rivalled in the broad-sword play, though hitherto only exercised in the form of single-stick.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Admiring this instance of generosity, and desirous that he should not suffer by his friendship, the captain gave him a new broad-sword, with a brass hilt; the possession of which rendered him completely happy.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003