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Meanings of fencing stick in English

A stick used instead of a sword for fencing.

        Synonyms
        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
        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
        Usage of fencing stick in English
        1
        Spinning in the other direction, Wantage presented a short fencing stick to Complain's stomach.
        Non-Stop