A sword, especially a type of sabre.
〈印度〉马刀；剑
the crowd poked at me with sticks and sheathed talwars
Example sentencesExamples
- They then used talwars to ward off the police.
- My tulwar has a hilt that was clearly made for someone with smaller hands than I.
- The point of having a curve in a tulwar or a kirpan is to enable you to perform ‘draw cuts’.
- Tribesmen whose skill lies more in the blade than the bow become bladesmen, wielding the tulwar with grace and speed.
- As with the previous engagements, the fighting was bitter, with close hand to hand fighting; the Sikhs preferring to rely on their tulwars whilst the British pressed forward with their bayonets.