Claymore

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  • noun. A claymore mine.
  • noun. A large, double-edged broadsword formerly used by Scottish Highlanders.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. . The name, in the Highlands of Scotland, of the heavy two-handed sword.
  • noun. A name given inaccurately in the eighteenth century to the basket-hilted broadsword made to be used with one hand, and closely resembling the cuirassier's broadsword of the seventeenth century in England.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A soldier armed with a claymore.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large two-handed sword historically used by the Scottish Highlanders.
  • noun. The Scottish basket-hilted broadsword used during the early modern period.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders
  • noun. an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy
  • Word Usage
    "“I used to like the big sword claymore, but now … now they have to make them all splody and full of — what do you call that stuff, Nemain?”"
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