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Significados de singlestick em inglês

A stick used instead of a sword for fencing.

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Examples for "fencing stick"
Examples for "fencing stick"
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Spinning in the other direction, Wantage presented a short fencing stick to Complain's stomach.
Non-Stop
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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
Uso de singlestick em inglês
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I am fairly good at fence, and excellent as any at singlestick.
The Black Douglas
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The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
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Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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Not the Admirable Chinnie, the singlestick champion?
The Anubis Gates
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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...
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Then, at college, he became illustrious among rowers and cricketers, renowned as a pistol shot, dreaded as a singlestick player.
Basil
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Thou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick, though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head.
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
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Captain Galsworthy was a frequent visitor, and though he was past eighty, insisted on giving our boys their first lessons with the singlestick.
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
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Using it as a singlestick, the Master laid a solid blow across the prince's left side, and he felt his ribs break within him...
Lord of Light
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He fences and singlesticks with you-­thereyou are even.
The Little Lady of the Big House
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"A game of singlestick is it?"
With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen An...
Singlestick ao longo do tempo