backsword
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They had swords and knives of a foot and a halfe long, and hattchetts very ingeniously done, and clubbs of wood made like backswords; some made of a round head that I admired it.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit
They set edges upon scimitars, cutlasses, badelairs, backswords, tucks, rapiers, bayonets, arrow-heads, dags, daggers, mandousians, poniards, whinyards, knives, skeans, shables, chipping knives, and raillons.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
