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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 ...
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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
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".
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A claymore is a two-handed sword, particularly the Scottish cross-hilted great sword. Claymore may also refer to: ... Scottish broadsword, a basket-hilted sword, ...
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