Claymore Small 215×320 Medium 430×640 Large 688×1024 Download Tiff Original 1612×2400 | (355.2 KB) Description A name given to a broadsword made to be used with one hand, and closely resembling the cuirassiers's broadsword of the seventeenth century in England. Keywords blade, sword Galleries Miscellaneous Illustrations of the United Kingdom, Swords and Daggers Source: William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881)