He stepped forward, drawing the short single-edged sword slung from the back of his belt.

The klewang is a traditional single-edged sword from Indonesia.

He often uses a dao (a Chinese single-edged sword), as his weapon of choice.

The other was longer single-edged sword with minimal hilt and ring pommel, of obvious eastern han influence.

They carried long black metal pikes and thick-bladed single-edged swords scabbarded at their hips.

"Only their single-edged swords and the finest of their double-edged swords."

A single-edged sword is called a kirpan, and its double-edged counterpart a khanda or tega.

Kastane is a short traditional ceremonial/decorative single-edged sword of Sri Lanka.

During the entire evolution of double-edged swords, backswords, or single-edged swords, continued to exist.

Others believed that a shochet (ritual slaughterer) armed with his khalef (a long, single-edged sword) might be to blame.

The dussack, being primarily a practice weapon, was used to train the real-life use of single-edged swords like the großes Messer.

A double-edge sword was called a geom while a single-edged sword was called a do.

His Apoca is a large single-edged sword with leather straps that wrap around his hand and part of his arm.

He customarily wields two single-edged swords with spiked hand-guards and on occasion carries other weaponry as well.

Two single-edged swords, or kirpans, are crossed at the bottom and sit on either side of the Khanda and Chakkar.

Thirty one days later, Amakuni and his son emerged gaunt and weary from the forge with a single-edged sword with curvature.

He wields a single-edged sword he took from the fallen human mercenary Rapier in the Church Ruins.

It was a single-edged sword with a heavy back, slightly curved, made of plain iron though with a good steel blade welded on by Shef himself.

Katana - a long curved and single-edged sword, more commonly used by samurai (or ninja disguised as samurai)

Murals that used to grace some of the city's public buildings depict her as a fierce fighter wielding a huge talibong, a short native single-edged sword.

A single-edged sword may be any single-edged bladed weapon with a hilt which is longer than a knife but shorter than a polearm.

The scythe sword (Sensenschwert) was a type of single-edged sword of the German Renaissance, related to the Dussack.

The Finnish word sakset scissors shows the name of the old Saxon single-edged sword Seax from which 'Saxon' is supposedly derived.

These include side-swords, two-handed swords such as longswords, and single-edged swords including Großes Messer, szablas, scimitars, and katanas.

While the Japanese would be more influenced by the Chinese dāo (single-edged swords of various forms), the early Japanese swords known as ken are often based on jian.