| 单词 | backsword |
| 例句 | What are those strange, clattering noises, like the sound of men fighting with wooden 'backswords'? The Hills and the Vale An ye think I be no true man, get down upon the path, and whether at fists, backsword, or bow and arrow, I will prove my manhood on your body.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) His weapon was, I believe, not the rapier, but the backsword, of which he recommends the use in his book on education. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 My backsword play hath been thought well of by stout men of war. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Then tossed he the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dagger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a cloak, with a target. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 In old times there was, to a certain extent—in the days when each village was divided against its neighbour, and fiercely contested with it the honour of sending forth the best backsword player. The Hills and the Vale 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 They had swords and knives of a foot and a halfe long, and hattchetts very ingeniously done, and clubbs of wood made like backswords; some made of a round head that I admired it. Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson 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. The Abbot |
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