CLAYMORE (from the Gaelic claidheamh mar, " great sword ")

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CLAYMORE (from the Gaelic claidheamh mar, " great sword ") , the old two-edged broadsword with

cross

CROSS

hilt, of which the

guards

GUARDS, AND HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

were usually turned down, used by the Highlanders of

Scotland

SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND,
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH,
  RICHARD
  WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR
  RICHARD
  (1784–1873)
OF
SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
OF

. The name is also wrongly applied to the single-edged

basket

BASKET

-hilted

sword

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-
European
- EUROPEAN
root meaning to wound)

adopted in the 16th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

and still worn as the full-dress

sword

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-
European
- EUROPEAN
root meaning to wound)

in the Highland regiments of the British army.

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