backsword
Example Sentences
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Then tossed he the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dagger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a cloak, with a target.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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
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
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
My backsword play hath been thought well of by stout men of war.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
