broadsword

== English == === Alternative forms === broad sword === Etymology === From broad +‎ sword. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɔːd.sɔːd/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɔd.sɔɹd/ === Noun === broadsword (plural broadswords) (history) A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and typically a basket hilt. A person armed with such a sword. (colloquial, often fantasy) Synonym of longsword. A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === broadsword (third-person singular simple present broadswords, present participle broadswording, simple past and past participle broadsworded) (transitive, rare) To attack or kill with a broadsword. === See also === falchion === Further reading === Freddie Bitsoie; James O. Fraioli (16 November 2021), New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian, Abrams, →ISBN: “[…] the ancestral Cherokee would prepare bean bread, also known as broadsword because of its flat, rectangular shape.”