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Sabre vs Glaive - What's the difference?

sabre | glaive |

As a proper noun sabre

is .

As a noun glaive is

a weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve.

sabre

English

(wikipedia sabre)

Alternative forms

* (chiefly US) saber

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
  • (UK, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

    • Usage notes

    This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

    Verb

    (sabr)
  • (UK, Canada, transitive) To hit or kill with a sabre.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "sabre")

    See also

    * sabrer * sabreur

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    glaive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 52.:
    • The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, sometimes reckoned among the pole axes.
  • A light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
  • (poetically or loosely) A sword.
  • * The glaive which he did wield. — .

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