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'''A sword''' is a weapon made from a long metal blade with a handle. It can be used to both attack and block. A good swordsman would have been able to cut off the [[arm]]s and [[leg]]s of his enemies with a single blow and still keep going on in defeating many of his enemies in a short period of time.{{fact}} The sword became more or less outdated when more of the armies of Europe and America started to use guns and [[gunpowder]].

'''A sword''' is a [[weapon]] with a single long blade, made for slashing or thrusting. A sword has one or two sharpened edges and/or a sharpened point. Throughout history, many cultures have developed swords and [[swordsmanship]], and swords have continued to have a role in fiction and ritual even after the invention of [[firearm|firearms]] rendered them obsolete as weapons of war.

 

Swords have long represented [[nobility]], warfare, and the military, chiefly because of their specialized nature and the difficulty of crafting them. Examples of this usage are the [[Christianity|Christian]] "for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword"<ref>"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." ''Matthew 26:52''</ref> and the [[Islam|Islamic]] "[[jihad|jihad bis saif]]" ("struggle by the sword").

 

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