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Singlestick   Listen
noun
Singlestick  n.  
1.
In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
2.
The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.





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"Singlestick" Quotes from Famous Books



... young kinsman, and at once accepted his services and that of his companion. Harry Drury was not unused to arms. 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. The necessary drill was therefore soon learned by Harry, and he was admitted to serve in the same ...
— Hayslope Grange - A Tale of the Civil War • Emma Leslie
... not so this time. The master was a fencer, and something of a boxer; he had played at singlestick, and was used to watching an adversary's eye and coming down on him without any of those premonitory symptoms by which unpractised persons show long beforehand what ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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