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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread falchion #107142 07/07/03 06:36 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley OP Carpal Tunnel OP Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta From Plutarch's Life of Aristides (http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch_aristides.htm): For taking hold of the spears with their bare hands, they broke many of them, and betook themselves not without effect to the sword; and making use of their falchions and scimitars, and wresting the Lacedaemonians' shields from them, and grappling with them, it was a long time that they made resistance. The Arms and Armour Glossary of Terms defines it thusly: Falchion: A short, heavy, broad-bladed sword with a single edge, bearing a similarity to a heavy scimitar. http://www.chronique.com/Library/Glossaries/glossary-AA/arms_f.htm#falchion Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: falchion #107143 07/07/03 03:19 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Bingley: I searched for "falx" and found this in the Smith dictionary: FALX, dim. FALCULA (a#rph, dre/panon, poet. drepa/nh, drepa/nion), a sickle; a scythe; a pruning-knife, or pruning-hook; a bill; a falchion; a halbert. As CULTER denoted a knife with one straight edge, "falx" signified any similar instrument, the single edge of which was curved (Dre/panon eu)kampe/j, Hom. Od. xviii.367; curvae falces, Virg. Georg. i.508; curvamine falcis aenae, Ovid, Met. vii.227; adunca falce, xiv.628). By additional epithets the various uses of the falx were indicated, and its corresponding varieties in form and size. Thus the sickle, because it was used by reapers, was called falx messoria; the scythe, which was employed in mowing hay, was called falx foenaria; the pruning-knife and the bill, on account of their use in dressing vines, as well as in hedging and in cutting off the shoots and branches of trees, were distinguished by the appellation of falx putatoria, vinitoria, arboraria, or silvatica (Cato, De Re Rust. 10, 11; Pallad. i.43; Colum. iv.25), or by the diminutive falcula (Colum. xii.18). " Early English foot soldiers carried a "billhook" which was like a heavy axe with forward curving tip, "J" shaped. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,549 Members9,187 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo 9,187 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 136 guests, and 5 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 12 LukeJavan8 4 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,695 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,928 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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