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A halberd is an old battlefield weapon: a long wooden pole with a metal head that mixes an axe blade, a sharp point, and often a hook. Foot soldiers in late-medieval Europe used it to pull riders down and to keep people at a distance. A tidy ’s line may call it a kind of sword, but that is tidier than the truth — you do not swing it in one hand like a sword; you plant and push with both hands, more like a heavy spear that can also chop. You will see it in museums, in pictures of city guards, and in games. It is a history word; nobody carries one to work.
戟（長柄斧槍，不是刀劍）
組成From Middle French hallebarde, from Italian alabarda, from Middle High German helmbarte, “broad-axe with a handle”: handle + axe (literally “beard”).
同家族的字
- halberdiera soldier who carried a halberd
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
halberdnoun/ˈhæl.bɚd/
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A two-handed pole weapon, consisting of a long pole with an axe-like blade mounted on it (at a right angle like an axe, not on the tip like a spear), and (opposite the blade) typically a spike or hook.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。