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n. A weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt.

n. An instrument of death or destruction.

n. The use of force, as in war.

n. Military power or jurisdiction.

idiom. at swords' points Ready for a fight.

idiom. put to the sword To kill; slay.

n. A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, cut or slash.

n. Someone paid to handle a sword.

n. A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

n. A card of this suit.

n. An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

n. Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

n. Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

n. The military power of a country.

n. One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

n. An offensive weapon consisting of an edged blade fixed in a hilt composed of a grip, a guard, and a pommel. See hilt.

n. Figuratively, the power of the sword—that is, the power of sovereignty, implying overruling justice rather than military force.

n. Specifically, military force or power, whether in the sense of reserved strength or of active warfare; also, the military profession; the profession of arms; arms generally.

n. The cause of death or destruction.

n. Conflict; war.

n. Any utensil or tool somewhat resembling a sword in form or in use, as a swingle used in flax-dressing.

n. The prolonged snout of a swordfish or a sawfish.

n. A light sword used for modern fencing with the point only, introduced about the middle of the seventeenth century and replacing, about 1700, all other blades except the heavy saber used in warfare. The small sword proper has a blade of triangular section, usually concave on each of the three sides, so as to be extremely light in proportion to its rigidity, and its hilt is usually without quillons, but has always a knuckle-bow and usually two shells.

To strike or slash with a sword.

n. Another spelling of sward.

n. One of the standards upon which oscillates the slay or lathe of a loom.

n. A bar or blade, in a measuring-machine, upon which cloths are rolled or wound.

n. a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

"A sword is not, however, in virtue of the meaning of the word ˜sword™, a phase of anything, and to use the term to name a phase of something in a given case, when it suits, is ad hoc."

weapon    weapon system    arm   

sword-and-scepter piece    trutch sword    to put to the sword    to measure swords    to be at swords' points    city sword    to sheathe the sword    provant sword    order of st. james of the sword    flaming sword   

backsword    saber    Excalibur    sabre    rapier    tuck    cutlass    cavalry-sword    cutlas    falchion   

war    dissension    brand    glaive    falchion    slasher    rapier    cutlass    scimitar    scimiter   

Ford    Lord    Verwoerd    Ward    abhorred    aboard    accord    adored    afford    award   

knife    weapon    dagger    arm    spear    arrow    bow    shield    ring    horse