A stick used instead of a sword for fencing.
1 I am fairly good at fence, and excellent as any at singlestick .
2 The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.
3 Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
4 Not the Admirable Chinnie, the singlestick champion?
5 George Fairburn had ever been an adept at all school games, and had spent many a leisure hour at singlestick .
6 Then, at college, he became illustrious among rowers and cricketers, renowned as a pistol shot, dreaded as a singlestick player.
7 Thou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick , though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head.
8 Captain Galsworthy was a frequent visitor, and though he was past eighty, insisted on giving our boys their first lessons with the singlestick .
9 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...
10 He fences and singlesticks with you-thereyou are even.
11 "A game of singlestick is it?"
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