cut and thrust

Her shrewd question, uttered almost unthinkingly in the cut-and-thrust of repartee, had got home somewhere on an old wound.

The sword was carried on the right thigh, and was a short cut-and-thrust weapon, like that which was used by the Spaniards.

And finally, there was a cut-and-thrust sword of alarming dimensions.

The word “Broad-sword” may be taken to include all kinds of cut-and-thrust swords.

I had none myself—nothing save a light cut-and-thrust sword.