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A claymore is a two-handed sword, particularly the Scottish cross-hilted great sword.
Claymore may also refer to:
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A claymore is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword. The former is characterised as having a cross hilt of forward-sloping quillons with quatrefoil terminations and was in use from the 15th to 17th centuries.
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