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broadsworded

broadsworded adjective: wearing or carrying a broadsword. Also the simple past and past participle of broadsword.

Adjective

broadsworded (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Wearing or carrying a broadsword.
    • xiphias gladius, the broadsworded gladiator of the sea1919 June, Zane Grey, “The Gladiator of the Sea”, in Tales of Fishes, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, page between 180 and 181
    • A small man he, booted, belted, buckskinned, broadsworded, to the hilt, his face like an old brown canvas sail, his hair whirling like smoke about his head.1974, Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, The Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 9

Also used as

broadsworded is also the simple past and past participle of broadsword.

Examples of broadsworded in a sentence

  • Both were in their middle thirties, tall and well muscled for the day, even if lightweights compared to Lamington and Polmood, and their habit was thick soldierly leather, broadsworded at the belt.1986, Hunter Steele, Chasing the Gilded Shadow: A Tale of the Time of James IV of Scotland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page...
  • From prehistoric eons to distant galaxies, broadsworded behemoths and laser-blasting bozos undertake great quests and dangerous journeys across new worlds (and even weirder old ones).1990, L[arry] A[lan] Morse, “Fantasy Adventures”, in Video Trash, Treasures II: A Field Guide to the Video Unknown, Toronto, Ont....
  • Celtic tattoos probably look great on some woad-covered warrior, running broadsworded-up to lop the head off some Roman.2004, David Quantick, Grumpy Old Men: A Manual for the British Malcontent, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 138:

Origin of broadsworded

From broadsword + -ed.

Questions about broadsworded

What does broadsworded mean?
Broadsworded means wearing or carrying a broadsword.
How do you use broadsworded in a sentence?
Both were in their middle thirties, tall and well muscled for the day, even if lightweights compared to Lamington and Polmood, and their habit was thick soldierly leather, broadsworded at the belt.
What part of speech is broadsworded?
Broadsworded is an adjective.

Words near broadsworded in the dictionary

  1. Broadstairs
  2. Broadstairs and St Peter's
  3. Broadstone
  4. Broadstreet
  5. broadsword
  6. broadsworded
  7. broadswords
  8. broadswordsman
  9. broadswordsmanship
  10. broadswordsmen
  11. broadtail

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