backsword

IPA: bˈækswɝd

Examples of "backsword" in Sentences

_ A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes.
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.
Rick took us through rapier, backsword, small sword and finally broadsword at least until he smashed it on Andrew's wrist and used a sabre instead.
After nearly eight hours of rapier, infantry sabre with an hour’s digression into backsword techniques we were all, to put it mildly, a little tired.
Actually, I'm reading George Silver at the moment also and the parallels between Silver and Liechtenauer are remarkable. (the Glasgow backsword class finally opened on Monday)
In the same manner, he proved satisfactorily, that the word sword comprehended all descriptions, whether backsword or basket-hilt, cut-and-thrust or rapier, falchion, or scimitar.
At Wilsden Green, a hat, and a purse of twenty shillings, were played for at backsword, and, as an encouragement for young players, five shillings were given to the winner of every head, and two shillings to the loser.
The two interpreters put on a good show of backsword, buckler, main gauche and transitional rapier although it was fairly obviously stage combat rather than any particular techniques from the treatises of Silver and Saviolo.