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What is a broadsword?

What is a broadsword? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) 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 a basket hilt.
  2. (colloquial, often fantasy) Synonym of longsword
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When he reappeared, he had a small pack as well as a broadsword and two smaller swords meant for cooperative use strapped to his back.
Each and every one of them is as adept with the longbow and the broadsword by day as he is with the dirk and the garrotte in the dead of night.
The battle armour he always wore clanked incessantly against the scabbard of the broadsword at his waist.
He himself took his broadsword, katana and short hunting knife for his leg.
There was no skill with the long sword, and Jash wielded the broadsword with a shocking incompetence.
Witness the growth of knives from the dirk to shortsword to huge English broadsword.

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