(a.) The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.
(a.) Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
(a.) A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
(v. t.) To smear with the white of an egg.
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Halberd
Definition:
(n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was an audible intake of breath as a slide came up showing the base of his skull sliced off by one terrible blow, believed to be from a halberd, a fearsome medieval battle weapon with a razor-sharp iron axe blade weighing about two kilos, mounted on a wooden pole, which was swung at Richard at very close range.
(2) The skull lay with the largely undamaged face up – itself a significant and sinister point, according to the experts, hiding the savage blow to the base from a halberd, a fearsome medieval pike-like weapon, which sliced through bone and into the brain and would have killed him in seconds.