Crossword clues for singlestick
singlestick
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singlestick \Sin"gle*stick`\, n.
In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a one-handed wood stick used for fencing in place of a sword.Allanson-Winn, R. G. et al. (2006). ''Broadsword and Singlestick: With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella, and Other Weapons of Self-Defense''. Paladin Press. ISBN 1581605129 2 a martial art, sport or exercise using a cudgel or backsword.
WordNet
n. a stick used instead of a sword for fencing [syn: fencing stick, backsword]
Wikipedia
Singlestick, also known as cudgels, refers to both a martial art that uses a wooden stick as well as the weapon used in the art. It began as a way of training sailors in the use of swords such as the saber or the cutlass. Canne de combat, a French form of stick fighting, is similar to singlestick play, but is more a method of self-defense with a walking stick.
Usage examples of "singlestick".
There was a good deal of merriment to divert our attention, for there were clowns and merry-andrews passing along the highroad, with singlestick players, Punch and Judy shows, and other public amusers.
Rosil teased me about getting in all my romping with women before marriage, until losing patience I inflamed his imagination with hints about wrestling bouts with slim young maidens, and singlestick classes run by a teacher who had developed her chest muscles to superb proportions.
Why, I saw Will Atkins, who was one of the best fighters and singlestick players in Hedingham, go off in a dead swoon because a man he was working with crushed his thumb between two heavy stones.
Watendlath, and whacked a Seathwaite farmer at singlestick and he champion of the valley--small stories, but he was already talked of beyond Bassenthwaite and over Buttermere and Loweswater.
I was easier for the Pathans to see than any other of our party, and well for me that singlestick and gloves have always been my favorite pastime!
The young Baron had been trained at Heidelbergand had that pretty scar to show for itand Holmes was an expert singlestick player as well as fencing champion.
Blade had also used his knowledge of kendo and singlestick fighting to work out ways of using the swords as clubs.
Just as in the days of yore their forefathers excelled in the use of the spear, brandishing and twirling it as easily as an Indian club or singlestick, so they excel to-day in the exercise of their five-foot flint-locks, performing the most dexterous feats on horseback at full gallop.
Cut, guard and point, the three elements of sword fencing, chanced also to be the exercises used in singlestick practice.
The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.
So for all their blades, pikes, and singlesticks, the samurai guided their five hundred charges with smiles and bows.
He also carried a rifle and two singlesticks, one of which he also gave Rebel.
With gesture and pantomime she was helping to bind padding onto the butts of singlesticks, for the practice bouts.
It was Threeday morning, the day of the week when Prestimion customarily went down to the exercise-hall to engage in a little singlesticks contest with Septach Melayn.