How To Use backsword In A Sentence
- Their Scottish backsword is fitted with opposing side rings that offer a good deal of hand protection while keeping the hilt light and easy to wear.
- This course will draw from the Pallas Armata and build combatants able to fence competitively with the backsword.
- _ A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
- Combatants in these duels used a variety of weapons, including singlesticks, quarterstaffs, and backswords, and the bouts were often bloody and occasionally fatal.
- Some backswords do have a short false edge, but one would think that he would then have preferred to make the final cut with the front edge.
- Reproduction swords include basket hilts, mortuary half baskets, rapiers, traditional claymores, officers' broadswords and backswords.
- David, it is possible that, according to him the backsword was a larger version of the single stick.
- The blade was generally double edged, though single-edged versions known as backswords were not uncommon.
- With a blast of bagpipes, the 78th Fraser Highlanders march out a side door, Scottish backswords raised, and solemnly lead His Royal Highness into the Winter Garden Show.
- Fine basket-hilted broadswords and backswords would be carried suspended from tooled baldrics with brass or silver buckles and trim.