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"bar#Noun"
],
[
"fixed",
"fix#Verb"
],
[
"at right angles to",
"at right angles to"
],
[
"blade",
"blade#Noun"
],
[
"handle",
"handle#Noun"
],
[
"sword",
"sword#Noun"
],
[
"bladed",
"bladed#Adjective"
],
[
"weapon",
"weapon#Noun"
],
[
"stops",
"stop#Verb"
],
[
"opponent",
"opponent"
],
[
"sliding",
"slide#Verb"
],
[
"injuring",
"injure"
],
[
"hand",
"hand#Noun"
],
[
"person",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"wielding",
"wield#Verb"
]
],
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"en:crossguard"
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{
"word": "guard"
},
{
"extra": "a metal bar fixed between, and at right angles to, the blade and the handle of a sword or other bladed weapon that stops an opponent's similar weapon from sliding along the blade and injuring the hand of the person wielding the sword",
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"synonym",
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}
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{
"text": "Holonyms: crossguard, guard < hilt"
},
{
"ref": "1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 125:",
"text": "The guard against the cut is technically called the cross[-]guard[…]. This section is composed of one or more bars projecting from the hilt between tang and blade, and receiving the edge of the adversary's weapon should it happen to glance or to glide downwards. The quillons may be either straight[…]—that is, disposed at right angles—or curved[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1885, Egerton Castle, “The Sword during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries”, in Schools and Masters of Fence: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 233:",
"text": "With regard to the quillons, it was obvious that with slight alteration they might be made to protect the hand very much more than they did in their straight condition. Accordingly, one branch was soon curved towards the pummel so as to protect the knuckles, and in such a case, for the sake of symmetry, the other branch was turned similarly towards the point.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1895, W. Kerr Smith, “Armour. A Paper Communicated to the Thoresby Society”, in The Publications of the Thoresby Society, volume IV (Miscellanea […]), Leeds, West Yorkshire: [Thoresby Society], →OCLC, page 123:",
"text": "[T]he simpler form of sword, with plain quillions, gives way to the more graceful rapier, or the English broadsword, with circular hand-guard.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1938, Charles ffoulkes, E[dward] C[ampbell] Hopkinson, “Swords of the Army [Infantry]”, in Sword, Lance & Bayonet: A Record of the Arms of the British Army & Navy, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 66:",
"text": "It should be pointed out that the true \"claymore\" or Claidheamh-mor was a two-handed sword with plain quillons sloped towards the blade.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Sword in the Stone”, in The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →ISBN, page 27:",
"text": "Then Arthur took the sword two-handed by its quillions. There was golden writing on the stone, but he did not stop to read it. The sword seemed to thrill under his touch as a harp thrills in response to its master's hand.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Nick Evangelista, “QUILLON”, in The Encyclopedia of the Sword, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 486:",
"text": "The quillons may either be straight or curved. When they bend upward toward the blade tip, they are called à antennas. […] The quillons may exist as the only form of guard on a sword. They may be joined by a group of counterguard bars, or they may be set under a cup or shell guard. While serving mainly as a hand protection and incidentally for wrapping the fingers around to increase one's grip strength, the quillons could also, on occasion, be thrust into the face of an adversary.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Dale Anthony Girard, “The Sword and the Stage: An Introduction to the Theatrical Rapier”, in Actors on Guard: A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen (A Theatre Arts Book), New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 23:",
"text": "In the sixteenth century quillons were extended with the intent to displace or entangle the opponent's blade. The quillons were either straight as in the medieval swords, recurved in S-form or bent towards the blade. In some types of hilt one quillon was curved towards the pommel, serving as a guard for the knuckles.",
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"Either of the two arms of a crossguard."
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/ˈkijɔ̃/",
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"word": "kullon"
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"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "kuilin",
"sense": "synonym of crossguard (cognates) — see also crossguard",
"word": "কুইলিয়ন"
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "synonym of crossguard (cognates) — see also crossguard",
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"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "kvillon",
"sense": "synonym of crossguard (cognates) — see also crossguard",
"word": "квиллон"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "synonym of crossguard (cognates) — see also crossguard",
"word": "میلیارد"
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"lang": "Polish",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "th",
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"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "khu li yan",
"sense": "synonym of crossguard (cognates) — see also crossguard",
"word": "ཁུ་ལི་ཡན།"
},
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"code": "fi",
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