backsword
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There'll be backsword play, and climmin the powl, and a race for a peg, and a cheese.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
In the same manner, he proved satisfactorily, that the word sword comprehended all descriptions, whether backsword or basket-hilt, cut-and-thrust or rapier, falchion, or scimitar.
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
In old times there was, to a certain extent—in the days when each village was divided against its neighbour, and fiercely contested with it the honour of sending forth the best backsword player.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
His weapon was, I believe, not the rapier, but the backsword, of which he recommends the use in his book on education.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
