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claymore|kleɪmɔə(r)|
Also 8 glaymore, cly-more.
[ad. Gael. claidheamh (ˈklaiə̃v) mòr ‘great sword’. Being two words in Gaelic, it has two accents: sometimes one, sometimes the other, has the main stress in Eng.]
1. a. Hist. The two-edged broadsword of the ancient Scottish Highlanders. Also (inexactly, but very commonly) the basket-hilted broadsword introduced in 16th c., which was frequently single-edged.
(The claymore was not, except in extraordinary instances, two-handed.)
1772Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 289 See here a Cly-more, or great two-handed sword. 1773Boswell Jrnl. Hebrides 15 Sept., The broad-sword now used..called the glaymore (i.e. the great sword). 1775Johnson Western Isl. Wks. X. 457 Their arms were anciently the Glaymore, etc. c1787Burns Battle Sheriff-Muir vi, By red claymores, and muskets' knell. 1802Campbell Lochiel's Warning, When Albin her claymore indignantly draws. 1813Scott Trierm. Introd. vii, Its heroes draw no broad claymore. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 14 His nodding plume and broad claymore.
b. ellipt. A man armed with a claymore.
1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 553 He might then hope to have four or five thousand claymores at his command.
2. A type of anti-personnel mine. In full claymore mine.
1962Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S.) (PB 181–465) 72/2 Claymore, name given to a type of antipersonnel mine designed to produce a directionalized, fan shaped pattern of fragments. 1965M. Browne New Face of War iv. 35 American arms designers have produced a mine called a ‘Claymore’, which has found wide use here [in Vietnam]. The Claymore, curved like a horseshoe, has an optical sighting device and hurls a blast of shrapnel directionally at the point toward which it has been pre-aimed. 1966New Statesman 9 Sept. 341/1 One Claymore mine would finish this mob. 1966New Scientist 17 Nov. 369/1 The claymore, whose effects can be devastating among close-packed ranks of men, was invented to deal with the wave formations of Chinese during the Korean war. |