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Claymore   /klˈeɪmˌɔr/   Listen
Claymore

noun
1.
A large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders.
2.
An antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy.  Synonym: claymore mine.



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"Claymore" Quotes from Famous Books



... I that led the Highland host Through wild Lochaber's snows, What time the plaided clans came down To battle with Montrose. I've told thee how the Southrons fell Beneath the broad claymore, And how we smote the Campbell clan By Inverlochy's shore. I've told thee how we swept Dundee, And tamed the Lindsay's pride; But never have I told thee yet How the Great ...
— Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems • W.E. Aytoun
... was slowly softening—when a hoarse voice bade him "yield!" And a claymore clanked and clattered on the bosses of his shield;— Rising round him, closing on him, sprang an ambush of his foe, The despoiler of his honor! All his ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various
... Charlie led That were hard on Willie's track, When frae Laffen field he fled, Wi' the claymore at his back, May they stand on Scottish soil When the White Rose bears the gree, And the Lord calls the King To ...
— New Collected Rhymes • Andrew Lang
... particular day, under a sunny sky, these three windows of the twelfth century blazed with splendour with their broad short blades, the blade of a claymore, flat wide panels of glass under the rose that held the most prominent ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... Hamilton—no more?—with a shieling on the moors, and the heather-cock for food, and a Hamilton plaid to wrap his heart's darling, and a fire of peats to sit by, and this hand empty but for love and his claymore?—Would the beauty of the world have come ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington


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