Glaive
[gleyv] /gleɪv/
noun, Archaic.
1.
a sword or broadsword.
/ɡleɪv/
noun
1.
an archaic word for sword
v.
late 13c., used in Middle English of various weapons, from Old French glaive “lance, spear, sword,” also figuratively used for “violent death” (12c.), from Latin gladius “sword” (see gladiator); influenced by clava “knotty branch, cudgel, club,” related to clavus “nail.”
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