‘the crowd poked at me with sticks and sheathed talwars’
‘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.’
‘My tulwar has a hilt that was clearly made for someone with smaller hands than I.’
‘They then used talwars to ward off the police.’
Origin
Early 19th century Hindi talvār from Sanskrit taravāri.
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