Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sword, especially a short, broad sword with a convex cutting edge and a sharp point, used in medieval times.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short, broad sword having a convex edge curving sharply to the point; loosely, as in poetry, any sword.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
- noun A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The blacksmith made it into a blade three feet long by two spans broad, a kind of falchion or chopper, cased it with gold and called it Dhámi (the "Trenchant") from its sharpness.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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a kind of falchion or chopper, cased it with gold and called it
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We decided it would be cool to test a sword I had (a falchion, actually), so we heaved the fish onto the front yard and with a ear piercing Kiai I bisected the fish with the sword.
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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We decided it would be cool to test a sword I had (a falchion, actually), so we heaved the fish onto the front yard and with a ear piercing Kiai I bisected the fish with the sword.
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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The pigs dined well that night and I can say that while I have yet to catch one on rod and reel in the water, I have "hunted" one on land with a falchion!
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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The pigs dined well that night and I can say that while I have yet to catch one on rod and reel in the water, I have "hunted" one on land with a falchion!
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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His +3 Keen Longsword and +2 frost shortsword are as expensive as a single +5 weapon (for example a +1 holy shocking greatsword of wounding or a +1 keen falchion of speed).
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He turned his face away from the hideous stench and saw his falchion leaning on the hearth, just out of reach…
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A long, broad, straight-shaped, double-edged falchion, with a handle formed like a cross, corresponded with a stout poniard on the other side.
The Talisman 2008
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Towards the middle of the plain, there lay the bodies of several men who had fallen in the very act of grappling with the enemy; and there were seen countenances which still bore the stern expression of unextinguishable hate and defiance, hands which clasped the hilt of the broken falchion, or strove in vain to pluck the deadly arrow from the wound.
The Monastery 2008
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