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Meanings of sword in English

Portuguese
gládio
Catalan
espasa
Spanish
espada

A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.

        gládio

        HER-011001.

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              Usage of sword in English
              1
              He described the attack, the sword fight, and his own necessary victory.
              Bundori
              2
              On the oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool.
              The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 / Vo...
              3
              And, to answer your previous question, I couldn't send the sword here.
              A Hard Day’s Knight
              4
              Conclusion: Registered nurses' job satisfaction could be described as a double-edged sword.
              Pubmed
              5
              I need to. It had caused him problems, carrying a heron-marked sword.
              The great hunt
              6
              The orderly-sergeant took the sword and tenderly placed it in the scabbard.
              Men, Women, and Boats
              7
              There they'd seen firsthand the double-edged sword of prejudice: the new apartheid.
              Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
              8
              And then the hand vanished away with the sword in the water.
              The Junior Classics, Volume 4: Heroes and heroines of chivalry
              9
              He shall die in the gate by the sword of the stranger.
              The Surgeon's Daughter
              10
              Beneath them the sword blades of the tribesmen glinted in the sunlight.
              The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier Wa...
              11
              However, the stronger rand is a double-edged sword for many many farmers.
              The South African
              12
              He no longer had use for the implied threat of a sword.
              Watcher of the Dead
              13
              I learned there were different words in Ademic for iron and sword-iron.
              The Wise Man’s Fear
              14
              If anything went wrong today the sword would be here for Adam.
              Success to the Brave
              15
              However, she warns this could be a double edged sword for companies.
              Reuters
              16
              He waved his sword defiantly and issued the ancient words of challenge.
              Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
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              Catalan
              espasa
              Spanish
              espada
              Sword through the time
              Sword across language varieties
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              Common
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              Common
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              Common
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