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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



... Sometimes, when I hear him laughing and jesting with the men, or with some of his school friends whom he brings up here, it seems to me that I see myself again in him; and that he is a merry young fellow, full of life and fun, and able to hold his own at singlestick, or to foot it round the maypole with any lad in Kent of his age. Then again, when he is talking with his mother, or giving directions in her name to the French labourers, I see a different lad, altogether: grave and quiet, with a gentle, ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty


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