Brandishing (nonfiction)
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Hajduk, 1703, prominently displaying a wicked-looking one-handed axe-and-pick weapon. Some scholars believe that this is The Brandisher himself; others argue that the image is a forgery and a calumny.
Brandishing is displaying a weapon in order to intimidate another person.
US Federal definition
According to United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines:
(C) "Brandished" with reference to a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) means that all or part of the weapon was displayed, or the presence of the weapon was otherwise made known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the weapon was directly visible to that person. Accordingly, although the dangerous weapon does not have to be directly visible, the weapon must be present.