Crossword-Solution: BACKSWORD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backsword | n. | A sword with one sharp edge. |
| Backsword | n. | In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. |
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| Weapon. | 98 answers |
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Sentences with BACKSWORD (5)
Sir Jasper will deliver you the length of my weapon, and appoint circumstances and an hour for our meeting; which, whether early or late--on foot or horseback--with rapier or backsword--I refer to yourself, with all the other privileges of a challenged person; only desiring, that if you decline to match my weapon, you will send me forthwith the length and breadth of your own.
Then tossed he the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dagger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a cloak, with a target.
His weapon was, I believe, not the rapier, but the backsword, of which he recommends the use in his book on education.
Twenty-four gamesters contended manfully at Harrow-on-the-Hill for a prize of a hat and purse, at the _right valiant_ game of backsword.
Figg himself, who was as good at backsword as at broadsword, at quarter-staff as at foil, and at fisticuffs as any one of them,--to say nothing of his Cornish wrestling,--I saw him once, and shall never forget him.