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Significats de backsword en anglès

A stick used instead of a sword for fencing.

Sinònims
Examples for "singlestick"
Examples for "singlestick"
1
I am fairly good at fence, and excellent as any at singlestick.
The Black Douglas
2
The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
3
Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
4
Not the Admirable Chinnie, the singlestick champion?
The Anubis Gates
5
George Fairburn had ever been an adept at all school games, and had spent many a leisure hour at singlestick.
With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen An...
1
Spinning in the other direction, Wantage presented a short fencing stick to Complain's stomach.
Non-Stop
Ús de backsword en anglès
1
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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3