Welsh glaive
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editWelsh glaive (plural Welsh glaives)
- A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe.
- 1838, James Gregor Grant, Rufus, Or, The Red King: A Romance:
- there shall not come the twang of a Welsh bow, nor the glimmer of a Welsh glaive within a fair league of its battlements!
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edit- “Welsh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.