Obs. exc. Hist. Also 9 braquemard. [a. F. braquemart a short broad sword: see Littré.] See quots.; also attrib.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xliv. He drew his brackmard or horseman’s sword. Ibid. With his great brackmard sword, laid such load upon those runaways, that [etc.].
1874. Boutell, Arms & Arm., ix. 177. The braquemard, or cutlass … has a straight flat wide blade, that is pointed and very sharp at either edge.
