broadsword UK /ˈbɹɔːd.sɔːd/US /ˈbɹɔd.sɔɹd/noun 4verb 1forms 3 noun4 •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.One version of the broadsword, the Highland broadsword, was adopted as the national sword of Scotland. Another, the schiavona, was Italy's version of the weapon. — 1995 •(informal) Synonym of longsword.The Brythunian's arm drew back; the ancient broadsword with its strange, clawed quillons arcked spinning through the air. — 1990 •A person armed with such a sword. •A flat, rectangular bread made from corn (maize) and beans by the Cherokee, traditionally by boiling rather than baking it. verb1 •(rare) To attack or kill with a broadsword.She’d met her first black knight—a pock-faced man in his sixties, wearing an ugly brown hat—and escaped from him without being broadsworded to death. — 1988 formsbroadsworded · broadswording · broadswords
