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Someone skilled at fencing
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swordsman
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Between the archers were set the formations of pikemen and swordsmen. ▪ He was the more skilled swordsman . ▪ Meanwhile the swordsmen move round to attack the enemy in the sides or to protect the halberdiers against a flanking ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from sword + genitive -s- + man (n.). Earlier was swordman (late 14c.); Old English had sweordfreca in the same sense. Related: Swordsmanship (1765).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swordsman \Swords"man\, n.; pl. Swordsmen . A soldier; a fighting man. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person skilled at using swords in sport or combat; a fencer. 2 A person who fights with a sword. 3 (context informal English) A man who is a skillful or enthusiastic practitioner of sexual intercourse.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone skilled at fencing [syn: fencer ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Swordsman is a 2013 Chinese wuxia television series adapted from Louis Cha 's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer . The series is written and produced by Yu Zheng, starring Wallace Huo , Joe Chen , Yuan Shanshan , Chen Xiao , Yang Rong , Howie Huang , Wu ...
Usage examples of swordsman.
Mostly they were Japanese, and it is characteristic that from the first it was contemplated that the aeronaut should be a swordsman.
With a grinding rumble, an entire section of the pile gave way just below where Alec stood, sweeping the swordsman over the edge.
He had a tolerably large escort: two hundred Hebrian arquebusiers and swordsmen and eighty heavy cavalry armed with lances and paired matchlock pistols.
He came from Naples, was a great gamester, a skilled swordsman, and was always ready to extract himself from a difficulty by a duel.
Their capes, crimson to announce who they were, billowed out behind as they charged past the swordsmen, lancers, standard-bearers, and finally Brogan.
Ganmiddich roundhouse with a troop of only two hundred swordsmen, Cluff Drybannock had taken to braiding his waist-length hair with rings of opal.
Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.
Arcole Blayke, swordsman and gambler, considering marriage to an exiled serving girl?
Neither Phystal nor Hamas was a good swordsman, and I could easily have overcome them in fair fight, but I could see that these new tactics of Fal Sivas were almost certain to prove my undoing.
He was a year older than her, eighteen, a goshi and the son of a goshi--an average swordsman, average soldier but to her her dream person.
I remembered an individual of that name who was a fencing-master in Vicenza, and on looking at him again his aspect, though much changed left no doubt as to the identity of the swordsman and the count.
The city of Lunaria burst into flames, as every one of the rebel horsemen fell, and their swordsmen were pinned between the fire and the knights.
The giant called Brogar and the dark swordsman who gave his name as Mawl looked worth another dozen, by themselves alone.
Crown did not want that silver lifeline jeopardized by armies of picaro swordsmen hijacking the silver trains along trails and highways.
Gavlok and the squires sat in silence, stupefied by the enormity of the disaster, the Mountain Swordsman Radd Falcontop spoke up.