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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the middle ages, a fanciful name applied to the sword of a hired soldier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
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