Current issue models come with an emergency blade in the crossguard.

Unlike before, she wore her sword with the graceful crossguard.

The blade was gone, dissolved away down to an inch or so from the crossguard.

The crossguard could be waisted or bent in the 12th and 13th century.

The pommel and the thick crossguard are made of brass.

The upper crossguard is bent forward and can be used as a bottle opener.

His blade sank up to its crossguard in a slab of rock.

He yelped and hit the man in the face with the crossguard of his blade being too nearly crushed for anything else.

Then there was a rough steel crossguard, no real decoration there either.

The Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard.

They can also be used as throwing knives and have a built-in bottle opener in the crossguard.

The crossguard develops in the European sword around the 10th century for the protection of the wielder's hand.

The steel crossguard had an angular bend at one end to facilitate a thumb rest.

She applied gentle pressure to the crossguard until she felt the knife click home.

The sword was aflame from point to crossguard, but Dondarrion seemed not to feel the heat.

He screamed, and closed his fist around the crossguard anyway, wresting it out of the bigger man's hand.

The blade was only slightly curved, the hilt topped with a crossguard of iron.

Figures of twisting dragons were etched on the crossguard.

Blood grooves ran the length from crossguard to six inches from the tip.

Steel rang upon crossguard with a sharp, angry clamor.

Jaric staggered off balance and caught the riposte on his crossguard.

It was only from the 11th century that Norman swords began to develop the crossguard (quillons).

The guard may contain a crossguard or quillons.

When he raised his blade higher, her body went limp and slid down the blade until it came to a stop against the crossguard.

Like Japanese blades, there is no pommel, and its two lengthy quillons form a simple crossguard.