sword

Malicious tunges, though they have no bones,
Are ſharper then ſwordes, ſturdier then ſtones.

c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:

Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 59:

Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 49:

A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.

A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.

(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

→ Japanese: ソード

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).


sword

en-verb

sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)

swords (present singular third-person)
swording (participle present)
sworded (participle past)
sworded (past)


sword

Nile ȝe deme þat I cam to ſende pees in to erþe / I cam not to ſende pees .· but swerd

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 10:34, page 4v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

Don't feel that I came to bring peace to Earth. I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword.

enm-noun

sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)

English: sword

Scots: swerd, sword

From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.