Sword vs. Sabre

Swordnoun

(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack.

Swordnoun

(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.

Swordnoun

(tarot) A card of this suit.

Swordnoun

(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Swordnoun

(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.

Swordnoun

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.

Swordnoun

Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

Swordnoun

Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

Swordnoun

The military power of a country.

Swordnoun

One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Swordnoun

a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

Sword

A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved.

Sabrenoun

A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.

Sabrenoun

A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

Sabreverb

To strike or kill with a sabre.

Sabrenoun

See Saber.

Sabrenoun

a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle

Sabrenoun

a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back

Sabreverb

cut or injure with a saber

Sabreverb

kill with a saber

Sabre

A sabre (sometimes spelt saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as the hussars, the sabre became widespread in Western Europe in the Thirty Years' War.