Definition of Sword

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Definition of Sword

Sword

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.

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

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

The military power of a country.

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

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Sword Quotations

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Kahlil Gibran

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson

Sword Translations

sword in Dutch is slagzwaard
sword in German is Schwert
sword in Hungarian is kard
sword in Italian is acciaio
sword in Latin is ferrum, gladius
sword in Portuguese is espada
sword in Spanish is espada

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