Broadsword (disambiguation)

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Broadsword or basket-hilted sword is an early modern military sword.

Broadsword may also refer to:

• Chinese broadsword, a wide-edged variety of the Chinese sabre or dao
• Claymore, a double edged longsword of Scottish origin

Entertainment

• BroadSword Comics
• "Broadsword", a song by Jethro Tull from The Broadsword and the Beast
• Broadsword Interactive, the developers of Dance Factory and Ultima Online

Ships

• Broadsword class frigate or Type 22 frigate
• HMS Broadsword (D31), a 1946 British Royal Navy ship
• HMS Broadsword (F88), a 1975 British Royal Navy ship
• HMS Broadsword, a fictional Royal Navy Destroyer in Jeffrey Archer's First Among Equals
• HMS Broadsword, a list of ships named HMS Broadsword

People with the name

• Joyce M. Broadsword, U.S. politician

See also

• Classification of swords#Broadsword
• Types of swords
• SS Empire Broadsword