Meanings
- not comparablerareWearing or carrying a broadsword.
xiphias gladius, the broadsworded gladiator of the sea
1919 June, Zane Grey, “The Gladiator of the Sea”, in Tales of Fishes, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, page between 180 and 1814 more examples
A small man he, booted, belted, buckskinned, broadsworded, to the hilt, his face like an old brown canvas sail, his hair whirling like smoke about his head.
1974, Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, The Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 9Both were in their middle thirties, tall and well muscled for the day, even if lightweights compared to Lamington and Polmood, and their habit was thick soldierly leather, broadsworded at the belt.
1986, Hunter Steele, Chasing the Gilded Shadow: A Tale of the Time of James IV of Scotland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 59From prehistoric eons to distant galaxies, broadsworded behemoths and laser-blasting bozos undertake great quests and dangerous journeys across new worlds (and even weirder old ones).
1990, L[arry] A[lan] Morse, “Fantasy Adventures”, in Video Trash, Treasures II: A Field Guide to the Video Unknown, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, →ISBNCeltic tattoos probably look great on some woad-covered warrior, running broadsworded-up to lop the head off some Roman.
2004, David Quantick, Grumpy Old Men: A Manual for the British Malcontent, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 138
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of broadsword
Origin
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