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or curved. A thrusting 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...

observer. Descending from the "belt" is a smaller line of three stars, Orion's Sword (the middle of which is in fact not a star but the Orion Nebula), also...

Väinämöisen vyö (Väinämöinen's Belt). The stars which appear to "hang" off the belt form an asterism called Kalevanmiekka (Kaleva's sword).[citation needed] In...

is typically used to carry a weapon (usually a sword) or other implement such as a bugle or drum. The word may also refer to any belt in general, but this...

Wallace Sword is an antique two-handed sword purported to have belonged to William Wallace (1270–1305), a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English...

as brass or steel. Most commonly, sword scabbards were worn suspended from a sword belt or shoulder belt called a baldric. Scabbards have at least been...

for him to draw his sword. Browne devised a supplementary belt that hooked into a waist belt with D-rings and went over his right shoulder to steady the...

regiments, two shoulder belts were worn - one carrying the cartridge box, and another for the bayonet, a sword ("sword belt" was also the term in this...

shall wear a white waist belt with sword attached to the belt by a sliding frog, except the Sergeant Major and the Leader of the Band, whose swords will be...

The butterfly sword is a short dao, or single-edged sword, originally from southern China, though it has also seen use in the north. It is thought that...

upper bourgeoisie. The male lute player, for instance, wears a shoulder belt and a sword. Despite its simplicity, the black and white marble flooring...

three double-edged swords (剣), nine kake-hake swords (懸佩刀, lit. 'sword hanging from a belt'), 44 large swords (大刀), 41 large swords in black sheaths (黒作大刀)...

manufactured and imported ninja swords appear in the American magazine Black Belt. 1981: Books containing references to the sword written by Masaaki Hatsumi...

Japanese swords, which are not swords, but are still classified as Japanese swords (nihontō) (as "tō" means "blade", rather than specifically "sword") because...

The Viking Age sword (also Viking sword) or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages...

which together are thought to resemble a sword or its scabbard. This group is south of the prominent asterism, Orion's Belt. Fables and old beliefs are...

9 in) wide and the sword has a total length of about 60 cm (24 in). The sword was without a scabbard, being held in a wide belt worn on the back[citation...

दांडपट्टा) is a sword, originating from the Indian subcontinent, with a gauntlet integrated as a handguard. Often referred to in its native Marathi as a dandpatta...

romanized: ethunu kaduwa) is a sword with a flexible, whip-like blade, originating in modern-day Kerala in the Indian subcontinent. It is thought to have existed from...

of swords; a sword was simply a single-edged or double-edged knife. Historical terms without a universal consensus of definition (i.e. "arming sword",...