singlestick
Origin of singlestick
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How to use singlestick in a sentence
When this was finished he very often played a bout of singlestick, or underwent some other severe muscular exertion.
Byron | Richard EdgcumbeI am fairly good at fence, and excellent as any at singlestick.
The Black Douglas | S. R. CrockettIt was, to use the term of the old-fashioned singlestick players, “first blood,” and the sight thereof had a disastrous effect.
Dead Man's Land | George Manville FennThou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick, though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head.
The Cornet of Horse | G. A. HentyGeorge Fairburn had ever been an adept at all school games, and had spent many a leisure hour at singlestick.
With Marlborough to Malplaquet | Herbert Strang and Richard Stead
British Dictionary definitions for singlestick
/ (ˈsɪŋɡəlˌstɪk) /
a wooden stick used instead of a sword for fencing
fencing with such a stick
any short heavy stick
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