glaive /glāv/ (obsolete)

1. A sword
2. A spear
3. A long-shafted weapon like a halberd, its edge on the outer curve
4. (also gleave /glēv/) a pronged fish-spear (dialect)

glaived adjective

• professoresses
• professorial
• professorially
• professoriate
• professoriates
• professors
• professorship
• professorships
• proffer
• proffered
• profferer
• profferers
• proffering
• proffers
• proficience
• proficiences
• proficiencies
• proficiency
• proficient
• proficiently
• proficients
• profile
• profiled
• profiler
• profilers