Definition of Swerd. Meaning of Swerd. Synonyms of Swerd

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Definition of Swerd

Swerd
Swerd Swerd, n. & v. See Sward, n. & v. [Obs.]
Swerd
Swerd Swerd, n. Sword. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Meaning of Swerd from wikipedia

- the context of leisurely swordsmanship: [P]leying at þe two hande swerd, at swerd & bokelere, & at two pyked staf, at þe hurlebatte [...]. The 1538 Dictionary...
- Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose: "With swerd, or sparth (axe) or gysarme" and Mandeville's Travels: "with swerds drawen and gysarmez and axes") and the...
- Proto-Indo-European root *swer- "to wound, to cut". Before about 1500, the spelling swerd(e) was much more common than sword(e). The irregular loss of /w/ in English...
- the high medieval period, references to swords as "great sword" (grete swerd, grant espée) or "small" or "short sword" (espée courte, parvus ensis) do...
- to the shoulder with valuable rings, both descending from the PIE root *swerd-, denoting the 'suspended sword'. Similarly, the word hand could descend...
-  184. Malory writes in the Winchester M****cript: "thenne he drewe his swerd Excalibur, but it was so breyght in his enemyes eyen that it gaf light lyke...
- mangt eth gamalt fädernis swerd wart tha nidher aff naglom kränkt som ther haffdo manga dagha hengt Them wart tha venlika fölgt til strand helsados wel...
- þis vndirstondinge: þat preestis & clerkis shulden not fiȝte bi material swerd. neiþir pleete neiþir stryue bi worldli manere aȝens temporal lordis, takinge...
- and folowed the Duc of Burgoyn he ever fleyng before them / And there they sore nioed the Contrey. w' fire and swerd. — John Rouse, Beauchamp Pageant...
- de Merlin, ed. H. Oskar Sommer 1894, p. 99, p. 24 "thenne he drewe his swerd Excalibur, but it was so breyght in his enemyes eyen that it gaf light lyke...