sword

Plural: swords

Noun

A weapon having a long blade for cutting or thrusting.
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
A card of this suit.
One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

Verb

To stab or cut with a sword

Examples

Finding a Q without a U is like having a sword without a hilt in Scrabble.
He took out his sword and stabbed the man in the stomach.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).

Synonyms

blade, brand, steel, sword

Scrabble Score: 9

sword: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
sword: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sword: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

sword: valid Words With Friends Word