SWORD-CUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sword-cut mean? 

• SWORD-CUT (noun)
  The noun SWORD-CUT has 1 sense:

1. a scar from a cut made by a sword

  Familiarity information: SWORD-CUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWORD-CUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scar from a cut made by a sword

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sword-cut" is a kind of...):

cicatrice; cicatrix; scar (a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue)

 Context examples 

“It is nought,” answered his squire, stanching the blood which dripped from a sword-cut across his forehead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually visible.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)