glaymore
English
Noun
glaymore (plural glaymores)
- Alternative form of claymore (a sword)
- 1788, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Second edition:
- "...the common name of the glaymore, or Highland broad sword."
- 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- Their arms were anciently the glaymore, or great two-handed sword, and afterwards the two-edged sword and target, or buckler
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References
- glaymore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913