Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of
claymore , probably used by mistake in the following passage:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A claymore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
claymore . (a sword)
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Examples
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The broadsword now used, though called the glaymore (i.e. the great sword), is much smaller than that used in Rorie More's time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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The broadsword now used, though called the glaymore (i.e. the great sword), is much smaller than that used in Rorie More’s time.
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We also saw his bow, which hardly any man now can bend, and his glaymore, which was wielded with both hands, and is of a prodigious size.
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I think the heavy glaymore was an ill-contrived weapon.
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I think the heavy glaymore was an ill-contrived weapon.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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We also saw his bow, which hardly any man now can bend, and his glaymore, which was wielded with both hands, and is of a prodigious size.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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I think the heavy glaymore was an ill-contrived weapon.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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