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  • Thumbnail for Live by the sword, die by the sword
    again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." The phrase comes from Matthew 26:52, in which one of Jesus's...
    12 KB (935 words) - 11:41, 24 July 2024
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    Iaijutsu (居合術) is a combative quick-draw sword technique. This art of drawing the Japanese sword, katana, is one of the Japanese koryū martial art disciplines...
    9 KB (1,220 words) - 06:59, 1 December 2023
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    A Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as...
    134 KB (17,229 words) - 03:40, 7 August 2024
  • sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a sharpened cutting edge on one or...
    80 KB (9,654 words) - 22:00, 29 July 2024
  • scabbard, to "draw" a knife, dagger, or sword The act of wielding a weapon by removing it from a holster, to "draw" a handgun Stefanie Draws (born 1989)...
    2 KB (353 words) - 12:08, 5 July 2024
  • Historically, Chinese swords are classified into two types, the jian and the dao. A Jian is a straight, double-edged sword mainly used for stabbing, and...
    39 KB (4,545 words) - 15:16, 2 June 2024
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    mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Traditionally, the sword in the...
    33 KB (3,924 words) - 19:41, 30 July 2024
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    Ōdachi (category Japanese sword types)
    The ōdachi (大太刀) (large/great sword) or nodachi (野太刀, field sword) is a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō) used by the samurai class...
    16 KB (1,799 words) - 04:02, 13 June 2024
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    Katana (redirect from Samurai sword)
    A katana (刀, かたな) is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two...
    68 KB (7,563 words) - 10:27, 30 July 2024
  • The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It is...
    46 KB (5,143 words) - 17:16, 5 August 2024
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    Scabbard (redirect from Sword sheath)
    only with very short lengths of sword. This is because drawing a long, sharp blade over one's shoulder and past one's head from a scabbard on the back...
    9 KB (1,039 words) - 07:21, 19 June 2024
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    Gladius (redirect from Mainz sword)
    (Classical Latin: [ˈɡɫadiʊs]) is a Latin word properly referring to the type of sword that was used by ancient Roman foot soldiers starting from the 3rd century...
    25 KB (2,925 words) - 09:51, 19 July 2024
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    or double-elimination matches. The object of fast draw as a combative sport is to quickly draw one's pistol and fire with the most accuracy. The sport...
    10 KB (1,382 words) - 03:26, 30 May 2024
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    Kendo (redirect from The Way of the Sword)
    Kendo (剣道, Kendō, lit. 'sword way', 'sword path' or 'way of the sword') is a modern Japanese martial art, descended from kenjutsu (one of the old Japanese...
    42 KB (4,787 words) - 13:14, 31 July 2024
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    Jian (redirect from Jian (sword))
    approximation: /dʒjɛn/ jyehn, Cantonese: [kim˧]) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. The first Chinese sources that...
    17 KB (2,220 words) - 11:46, 26 June 2024
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is a 2011 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. A high-definition remaster of the...
    111 KB (10,887 words) - 18:29, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Marine Corps noncommissioned officer's sword
    USMC Sword Manual Procedures are: Draw sword Present sword from carry or order sword Order sword from present sword Carry sword from order sword or present...
    9 KB (1,090 words) - 11:43, 19 June 2023
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    the Hard Destroying One, sword of Caílte mac Rónáin. Cruaidín Catutchenn, the sword of Cú Chulainn. Dyrnwyn (White-Hilt), the Sword of Rhydderch Hael....
    189 KB (25,793 words) - 15:56, 27 July 2024
  • rebukes him saying: "Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."(Matthew 26:52) Jamieson, Fausset...
    7 KB (1,116 words) - 20:31, 26 October 2023
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    Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures....
    38 KB (4,785 words) - 10:41, 15 July 2024
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