A short, light sword, when long swords wielded by two hands were in use. (See Sir W. Scott’s Abbot, chap. xx.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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