A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
synonym: sabre.
Roget 727:
arm,
arms;
weapon,
deadly weapon;
armament,
armaments,
armature;
panoply,
stand of arms;
armor
etc.
(defense)
717;
armory
etc.
(store)
636;
apparatus belli [Lat.].
ammunition;
powder,
powder and shot;
cartridge;
ball cartridge,
cartouche,
fireball;
villainous saltpeter"
[Henry IV];
dumdum bullet.
explosive;
gunpowder,
guncotton;
mercury fulminate;
picrates;
pentaerythritol tetranitrate,
PETN.
high explosive;
trinitrotoluene,
TNT;
dynamite,
melinite†,
cordite,
lyddite,
plastic explosive,
plastique;
pyroxyline†.
[knives and swords: list]
sword,
saber,
broadsword,
cutlass,
falchion†,
scimitar,
cimeter†,
brand,
whinyard,
bilbo,
glaive†,
glave†,
rapier,
skean,
Toledo,
Ferrara,
tuck,
claymore,
adaga†,
baselard†,
Lochaber ax,
skean dhu†,
creese†,
kris,
dagger,
dirk,
banger†,
poniard,
stiletto,
stylet†,
dudgeon,
bayonet;
sword-bayonet,
sword-stick;
side arms,
foil,
blade,
steel;
ax,
bill;
pole-ax,
battle-ax;
gisarme†,
halberd,
partisan,
tomahawk,
bowie knife†;
ataghan†,
attaghan†,
yataghan†;
yatacban†;
assagai,
assegai†;
good sword,
trusty sword,
naked sword;
cold steel.
club,
mace,
truncheon,
staff,
bludgeon,
cudgel,
life preserver,
shillelah,
sprig;
hand staff,
quarter staff;
bat,
cane,
stick,
knuckle duster;
billy,
blackjack,
sandbag,
waddy†.
gun,
piece [Fr.];
firearms;
artillery,
ordnance;
siege train,
battering train;
park,
battery;
cannon,
gun of position,
heavy gun,
field piece [Fr.],
mortar,
howitzer,
carronade†,
culverin†,
basilisk;
falconet,
jingal†,
swivel,
pederero†,
bouche a feu [Fr.];
petard,
torpedo;
mitrailleur [Fr.],
mitrailleuse [Fr.];
infernal machine;
smooth bore,
rifled cannon,
Armstrong gun†,
Lancaster gun,
Paixhan gun,
Whitworth gun,
Parrott gun,
Krupp gun,
Gatling gun,
Maxim gun,
machine gun;
pompom†;
ten pounder.
small arms;
musket,
musketry,
firelock†,
fowling piece [Fr.],
rifle,
fusil†,
caliver†,
carbine,
blunderbuss,
musketoon†,
Brown Bess,
matchlock,
harquebuss†,
arquebus,
haguebut†;
pistol,
postolet†;
petronel;
small bore;
breach-loader,
muzzle-loader;
revolver,
repeater;
Minis rifle,
Enfield rifle,
Flobert rifle,
Westley Richards rifle,
Snider rifle,
Martini-Henry rifle,
Lee-Metford rifle,
Lee-Enfield rifle,
Mauser rifle,
magazine rifle;
needle gun,
chassepot†;
wind gun,
air gun;
automatic gun,
automatic pistol;
escopet†,
escopette†,
gunflint,
gun-lock;
hackbut†,
shooter,
shooting iron [U.S.],
six-shooter [U.S.],
shotgun;
Uzzi,
assault rifle,
Kalashnikov.
bow,
crossbow,
balister†,
catapult,
sling;
battering ram
etc.
(impulse)
276;
gunnery;
ballistics
etc.
(propulsion)
284.
missile,
bolt,
projectile,
shot,
ball;
grape;
grape shot,
canister shot,
bar shot,
cannon shot,
langrel shot†,
langrage shot†,
round shot,
chain shot;
balista†,
ballista†,
slung shot,
trebucbet†,
trebucket†;
bullet,
slug,
stone,
brickbat,
grenade,
shell,
bomb,
carcass,
rocket;
congreve†,
congreve rocket†;
shrapnel,
mitraille [Fr.];
levin bolt†,
levin brand†;
thunderbolt.
pike,
lance,
spear,
spontoon†,
javelin,
dart,
jereed†,
jerid†,
arrow,
reed,
shaft,
bolt,
boomerang,
harpoon,
gaff;
eelspear†,
oxgoad†,
weet-weet,
wommerah†;
cattle prod;
chemical mace.
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Dutch: kromzwaard, sabel
Polish: szabla
A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back.
synonyms: cavalry sword, sabre.
Dutch: sabel
Cut or injure with a saber.
synonym: sabre.
Roget 361:
kill,
put to death,
slay,
shed blood;
murder,
assassinate,
butcher,
slaughter,
victimize,
immolate;
massacre;
take away life,
deprive of life;
make away with,
put an end to;
despatch,
dispatch;
burke,
settle,
do for.
strangle,
garrote,
hang,
throttle,
choke,
stifle,
suffocate,
stop the breath,
smother,
asphyxiate,
drown.
saber;
cut down,
cut to pieces,
cut the throat;
jugulate†;
stab,
run through the body,
bayonet,
eviscerate;
put to the sword,
put to the edge of the sword.
shoot dead;
blow one's brains out;
brain,
knock on the head;
stone,
lapidate†;
give a deathblow;
deal a deathblow;
give a quietus,
give a coupe de grace.
behead,
bowstring,
electrocute,
gas
etc.
(execute)
972.
hunt,
shoot
etc.
n..
cut off,
nip in the bud,
launch into eternity,
send to one's last account,
sign one's death warrant,
strike the death knell of.
give no quarter,
pour out blood like water;
decimate;
run amuck;
wade knee deep in blood,
imbrue one's hands in blood.
die a violent death,
welter in one's blood;
dash out one's brains,
blow out one's brains;
commit suicide;
kill oneself,
make away with oneself,
put an end to oneself,
put an end to it all.
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