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The basket-hilted sword was a cut and thrust sword which found the most use in a military context, contrasting with the rapier, the similarly heavy thrust-oriented sword most often worn with civilian dress which evolved from the espada ropera or spada da lato type during the same period. The term "broadsword" was used in the 17th and 18th ...
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
A broadsword, or basket-hilted sword, is an early modern European sword. Broadsword may also refer to: A type of medieval arming sword with a broad blade, designed more for cutting than thrusting; Chinese broadsword, a single-edged Chinese sword; Scottish broadsword, a Scottish basket-hilted sword
In 1895, a new pierced steel hilt pattern was introduced, replacing the earlier Gothic hilt with a three-quarter basket hilt. The new pattern was short-lived due to the edge of the guard fraying uniforms, and in 1897 the final pattern was settled on, being simply the 1895 pattern with the inner edge of the guard turned down, and the piercings ...
Jack Churchill (far right) leads a training exercise, sword in hand, from a Eureka boat in Inveraray. In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led No. 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania , in Sicily, with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, [ 20 ...
The Model 1913 saber features a large, basket-shaped hilt mounting a straight, double-edged, thrusting blade designed for use by heavy cavalry. It was designed in accordance with Patton's system of swordsmanship , which was published by the War Department as the 1914 Saber Exercise manual, [ 6 ] and which emphasized the use of the point over ...
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5 "Mortuary sword" 1 comment. 6 Basket hilted sword not the same as a Broadsword. 11 comments. 7 Broadswords are also called cruciform swords. 2 comments.