How To Use Backsword In A Sentence
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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.
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This course will draw from the Pallas Armata and build combatants able to fence competitively with the backsword.
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_ 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
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Combatants in these duels used a variety of weapons, including singlesticks, quarterstaffs, and backswords, and the bouts were often bloody and occasionally fatal.
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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.
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Reproduction swords include basket hilts, mortuary half baskets, rapiers, traditional claymores, officers' broadswords and backswords.
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David, it is possible that, according to him the backsword was a larger version of the single stick.
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The blade was generally double edged, though single-edged versions known as backswords were not uncommon.
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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.
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Fine basket-hilted broadswords and backswords would be carried suspended from tooled baldrics with brass or silver buckles and trim.
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This is a copy of a basket hilted backsword which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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The grips of the backswords are covered with wire-wrapped genuine rayskin and the basket liners are crafted in fabric-covered leather.
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By the second quarter of the 18th century the broadsword was declining in use and the backsword, which is a thick-backed single-edged blade, was coming into more common use, and unfortunately many of the double- and triple-fullered blades of the 17th century were altered into backswords by grinding down one edge and bringing the point back about one-third of the way from the end.
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The edge parry was used with the Highland broadsword and backsword by 1728.
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That's right, I'm talking about the correct use of broadswords, backswords, sabers, cutlasses, & spadroons.
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In order to be proficient, he indicated that the following forms must be learned: rapier and dagger, staffe, backsword, single rapier, longsword and dagger, and shortsword and dagger.
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Whereas the ‘cudgel’ was, as stated, for learning the use of the backsword / broadsword.
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We wanted to develop a serious tactical backsword optimized for personal defense situations.
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The other ranks were issued Basket-hilt backswords while the Officers had to supply their own.
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For single-edged backswords, only 1/2’ of foam need be used for the back edge.
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England about the abolition of the Briton's old favourite sports, it was conceded by all but a few, that from the custom of boxing, singlestick and backsword playing, wrestling, &c. arose the good temper which distinguishes that people -- Englishmen being less subject to violent fits of anger than the people of any other nation in the world.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
