lexis4u: Bladed Weapons Classification

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 293 v. 2.

Short Bladed Weapons

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.
clasp knife |n| a large pocketknife, esp. one with blades which, when open, can be secured by a catch.
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.
hunting dagger |n| a knife used to kill wild game.
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.
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.
bread knife |n|a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
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.
carving knife |n| a knife with a long blade used for carving cooked meat into slices.
paper knife |n| a knife for slitting envelopes or uncut pages.
dagger |n| a short knife with a pointed and edged blade, used as a weapon.

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

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

dart |n| a small pointed missile that can be thrown or fired.
"The classroom was littered with paper darts."
"She shot the animal with a tranquillizing dart."
arc / bow |n| a weapon for shooting arrows, typically made of a curved piece of wood joined at both ends by a taut string.
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.
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.
arbalest |n| a crossbow especially of medieval times.