singlestick
IPA: sˈɪŋgʌɫstɪk
noun
- A one-handed wooden stick used for fencing in place of a sword.
- (uncountable) A martial art, sport or exercise using a cudgel or backsword.
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Examples of "singlestick" in Sentences
- The English martial art singlestick is very similar.
- He won the silver medal in the singlestick competition.
- I used to be a fair hand with singlestick not long ago.
- In 1904 he won the silver medal in the singlestick competition.
- Eagle. is characterized as a bouncer from England and master of singlestick.
- _ A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes.
- Captain Galsworthy was a frequent visitor, and though he was past eighty, insisted on giving our boys their first lessons with the singlestick.
- In the compass of eighteen pages of a work now before us we have details of no less than two grand matches of singlestick, one Wiltshire against
- In our very first introduction to Mr. Holmes, the story “A Study In Scarlet”, Watson describes Holmes as “an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.”
- The play at singlestick at Salisbury races on Wednesday was very dull, there being no players of note to meet the Somersetshire men, who carried off the prize easily.
- We had constant sparring matches and some practice also with singlestick and foils; and Mr. Johnson would let me off sometimes of an afternoon to go a-fishing with the boy.
- He had been taught fencing as a part of his education, and would use the singlestick, arquebus, and crossbow, while the fashion of every gentleman wearing a sword had rendered it necessary that this weapon should be handled skilfully.
- 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.