† slaugh-sword Obs.
Also 6 slawght-, slath-, 7 slaug-.
[ad. older Flem. slachsweerd (Du. slagzwaard; Da. slagsværd, Sw. -svärd), or G. schlachtschwert.]
A large two-handed sword.
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 235 b, Euery man hauing a iauelyn or slaughsword to keepe the people in aray. a 1575 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 36) 11 A brode slawght swerde, and a dager sharpe onelie on the one side. 1590 Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 6 b, A fewe slath swords for the gard of their Ensignes. 1614 Gorges Lucan vi. 226 Those rough Tewtons..That vse long slaug-swords [printed slang-] in their mart. |