two-hand sword

English

Alternative forms
  • two-handed sword

Noun

two-hand sword (plural two-hand swords)

  1. A sword with a handle or grip that is intended to be grasped with both hands.
    • c. 1490s, Henry Medwell, Nature, London, c. 1530s, Part 1,
      Sometyme he serueth me at borde
      sometyme he bereth my two hand sword
    • 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Part 1,
      Come with thy two-hand sword.
    • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Volume 3, Chapter 2, Section 1, p. 257,
      Faria on the other side […] with a zealous feruour reached Coia Acem, such a blow with a two hand Sword on his Head-piece of Maile, that he sunke to the ground […]
    • 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume I, Chapter 6, p. 111,
      […] Charlie, growing wroth, squeezed the Lady Jane so strait with the left arm, that she was forced to cry out; and putting his right over his shoulder, he drew out his tremendous two-hand sword […]
    • 1963, H. Beam Piper, Space Viking, New York: Ace Books, Chapter 4, p. 18,
      He stepped forward as he spoke, and his esquire gave him the two-hand Sword of State, heavy enough to behead a bisonoid.
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