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What is a glaive?

What is a glaive? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve.
  2. A light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
  3. (poetically or loosely) A sword.
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But those two men were hundred-armed giants, the swords flew about in their hands like the burning glaive of the archangel.
The glaive of Justice should descend where erstwhile it had corruptly been stayed.
Their traditional weapon was the naginata, a form of glaive, but they were also proficient in archery and swordsmanship.
He sprang forward nimbly, as best he might, so that the glaive smote the air.
When he marked the falling glaive he deemed that his day had come, for he was a naked man, clad in nought but his shirt and hosen.
Looking a question at Erin, she drew her glaive from its scabbard and handed it to the weaponsmaster.

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