bearer of the sword

Noun bearer of the sword has 1 sense

• bearer of the sword(n = noun.group) abu sayyaf - a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping; "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
is a kind of foreign terrorist organization, fto, terrorist group, terrorist organization