(n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(2) Billed as a festival of Englishness, titled England, My England, the day involved fish and chips and a demonstration of broadsword fencing, and was rounded off with a glass of English ale.
(3) In his day, only softies sat around listening to people’s telephone calls; a real agent would have killed a couple of commies and drunk cocktails with a damned handsome brunette before a desk Johnny could say “Broadsword to Danny Boy”.
(4) "The significance of his leadership is he has been able to marry the nationalism of the heart – the kilts and broadswords – with the nationalism of the mind, which takes in economics."
Falchion
Definition:
(n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
(n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.