Welsh glaive

English

Noun

Welsh glaive (plural Welsh glaives)

  1. A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Welsh glaive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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