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Welsh glaives

Welsh glaives is the plural of Welsh glaive.

Meaning of Welsh glaive

Noun

Welsh glaive (plural Welsh glaives)

  1. A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe.
    • there shall not come the twang of a Welsh bow, nor the glimmer of a Welsh glaive within a fair league of its battlements!1838, James Gregor Grant, Rufus, Or, The Red King: A Romance
    Synonyms:
    Welsh hook

Questions about Welsh glaives

What is Welsh glaives the plural of?
Welsh glaives is the plural of Welsh glaive.

Words near Welsh glaives in the dictionary

  1. Welsh dressers
  2. Welsh English
  3. Welsh flannel
  4. Welsh flannels
  5. Welsh glaive
  6. Welsh glaives
  7. Welsh Harp
  8. Welsh harps
  9. Welsh hat
  10. Welsh Hook
  11. Welsh hooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Welsh glaives (page history and authors); Welsh glaive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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