backsword
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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
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
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
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
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
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