Bladed Weapons Classification

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 293 v. 2.

      Short Bladed Weapons

1. knife |n|  a tool, usually with a metal blade and a handle, used for cutting and spreading food or other substances, or as a weapon.
2. clasp knife |n| a large pocketknife, esp. one with blades which, when open, can be secured by a catch.
3. hunting knife |n| a knife used during hunting for preparing the game to be used as food: skinning the animal and cutting up the meat.
4. hunting dagger |n| a knife used to kill wild game.
5. survival knife |n| a knife intended for survival purposes in a wildernessenvironment, often in an emergency when the user has lost most of his/her main equipment.
6. hatchet |n| a small, short-handled ax having the end of the head opposite the blade in the form of a hammer, made to be used with one hand.
7. bread knife |n|a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
8. butcher’s knife |n|  a heavy-duty knife usually 6 to 8 inches long having a broad rigid blade that curves slightly at the tip.
9. carving knife |n| a knife with a long blade used for carving cooked meat into slices.
10. paper knife |n| a knife for slitting envelopes or uncut pages.
11. dagger |n| a short knife with a pointed and edged blade, used as a weapon.

    Medium Size Bladed Weapons

1. sword |n| weapon consisting of a ling straight or curved blade fixed to a hilt.
2. falchion |n| a broad, short sword having a convex edge curving sharply to the point.
3. machete |n| a large heavy knife used for cutting sugarcane and underbrush and as a weapon.

      Large Size Bladed Weapons

1. lance |n| a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
2. spear 1 |n| a thrusting or throwing weapon with long shaft and sharp head or blade
3. spear 2 |n| a sharp-pointed instrument with barbs used in spearing fish.

      Others

1. dart |n| a small pointed missile that can be thrown or fired.
2. "The classroom was littered with paper darts."
3. "She shot the animal with a tranquillizing dart."
4. arc / bow |n| a weapon for shooting arrows, typically made of a curved piece of wood joined at both ends by a taut string.
5. crossbow |n| a medieval bow of a kind that is fixed across a wooden support and has a groove for the bolt and a mechanism for drawing and releasing the string.
6. arrow |n| a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
7. arbalest  |n| a crossbow especially of medieval times.

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