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2. Basket-hilted sword - Wikipedia

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   The basket hilt is a development of the quillons added to swords' crossguards since the Late Middle Ages. This variety of sword is also sometimes referred to as the broadsword, though this term may also be applied loosely and imprecisely to other swords. [1] [2] The basket-hilted sword was generally in use as a military sword.

3. Claymore - Wikipedia

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   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".

4. Andrew Ferrara - Wikipedia

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   The term came to be used generically as a term for the Scottish basket-hilted broadsword. [4] If the sword was of high quality it was referred to as a "true Andrew Ferrara". [5] Grose says "the common name of the glaymore, or Highland broad sword". [6]

5. Claymore (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   A claymore is a two-handed sword, particularly the Scottish cross-hilted great sword. ... Scottish broadsword, a basket-hilted sword, ...

6. Classification of swords - Wikipedia

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   The term two-handed sword may refer to any large sword designed to be used primarily with two hands: the European longsword, popular in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. the Scottish late medieval claymore (not to be confused with the basket-hilted claymore of the 18th century) the Bidenhänder sword favored by the Landsknechte of 16th ...

7. Broadsword (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   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

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9. Historical fencing in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Different positions from the Hanging Guard, from Captain G. Sinclair's "Anti Pugilism" Scottish fencing manuals detailing the use of the basket-hilted Scottish broadsword (besides other disciplines including the smallsword and spadroon and, to a lesser extent, the targe, dirk and quarterstaff) were published throughout the 18th century, with early and late examples dating to the late 17th and ...