Meaning of gladius | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Roman sword roughly two feet long.
   historical
2. A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.

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Examples

“Finally, the Romans made the gladius—sharp, of highly-tempered steel, and strongly piercing—the first real sword (Figs. 17, 18, 19), of which only five specimens are now known to exist.”

“The gladius was effective either for cutting or for thrusting and was used by legionaries and auxiliaries.”

“From the Cretaceous of North America fossilised gladii in the enigmatic genus Tusoteuthis have been estimated to give a mantle length (body size) of 1.8m, just less than that of the giant squid’s.”

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