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.

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