singlestick

When this was finished he very often played a bout of singlestick, or underwent some other severe muscular exertion.

I am fairly good at fence, and excellent as any at singlestick.

It was, to use the term of the old-fashioned singlestick players, “first blood,” and the sight thereof had a disastrous effect.

Thou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick, though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head.