Joseph Swetnam states that the bastard sword is midway in length between a short sword and a long sword, ( literally a cross-hilted blade ).
32.
The municipality s heraldic language be described thus : Per fess Or seven lozenges gules, four and three, and gules a sword bendwise argent hilted of the first.
33.
He was presented with the gold medal of the Turkish Order of the Crescent and received a gold-hilted sword from the masters of the ships of the expedition.
34.
The French hussar of the Napoleonic period was armed with a brass-hilted sabre, a carbine and sometimes with a brace of pistols, although these were often unavailable.
35.
The word " claymore " was first used in reference to swords in the 18th century in Scotland and parts of England to refer to basket-hilted swords.
36.
Prynne, girt with an old basket-hilted sword, marched into Westminster Hall at their head; though the effect was spoiled when Sir William Waller tripped on the sword.
37.
The right to bear a gold-hilted sword was one of the privileges of the court rank of manglabites, and is taken as an indicator that Bolli held this rank.
38.
The municipality s heraldic language be described thus : Argent two mullets azure in chief flanking a pile transposed of the same charged with a sword raguly of the field hilted Or.
39.
Countering this view, Paul Wagner & Christopher Thompson argue that the term " claymore " was applied first to the basket-hilted broadsword, and then to all Scottish swords.
40.
The Sinclair hilt broadsword influenced the development of the Scottish "'basket-hilted broadsword "', which was used by highlanders in the 17th and 18th century.
