broadsworded

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adjective

Wearing or carrying a broadsword.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivebroadsworded (not comparable)
  1. 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 181
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    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 9

    Both 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 59

    From 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, →ISBN

    Celtic 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
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of broadsword

Origin

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Chicago

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