"sword" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There were swords, short double-edged cut-and-thrust blades; the long single-edged cavalry swords with basket hilts that the east coast kingdoms favored.
- Those Frenchmen who were untouched by British heavy cavalry swords immediately fled back toward their own lines chased by the British and Netherlands infantry.
- The Central Asian Turks and their offshoots begun using curved cavalry swords beginning from the late Hsiung-Nu period.
- Now it hung from the pommel of Uchitel's saddle, a long cavalry sword with a slightly curved blade, angled and weighted for a downward thrust from horseback.
- Still the long cavalry swords were formidable weapons.
- Captain Hornby, leader of the squadron, was awarded the DSO as the first British officer to kill a German with the new pattern cavalry sword.
- In common with British cavalry swords of the era, they were compromised cut-and-thrust swords and as a consequence were not ideal for either task.
- Cuirassiers were armed with a straight-bladed cavalry sword, carbine and a pistol from 1806.
- Within the scabbard a Danish cavalry sword, crafted in 1734, had a double edged blade and a shell like guard.
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