glaymore
English edit
Noun edit
glaymore (plural glaymores)
- Alternative form of claymore (a sword)
- 1788, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd 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
References edit
- “glaymore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.