What is "smallsword"

Usage examples of "smallsword".

He settled his musket across his knees and adjusted the unfamiliar length of the smallsword across the bench, scanning the river ahead.

Most of his gear and clothing left in his cabin aboard the cromsteven, taking only a small, flat leather case with him, along with a richly decorated smallsword which he never before had worn or displayed.

Though some still wore such old-style rapiers, few still fought with them, preferring the lighter, nimbler smallsword, for good reason: while a man with a rapier made one thrust, the bearer of a smallsword could parry and riposte twice, despite the difference in length.

Spanish weapon was almost as light as a smallsword, and so could be fenced with in the usual manner.

He slid down from the saddle, drew his smallsword, and made a few passes with it.

On her left stood one as straight and tall as an Italian cedar, somewhat slender, one hand rakishly on the hilt of his smallsword, the other straightening his bronze-embroidered waistcoat.

As was, rage sharpened my wit to serve for the smallsword I left at home.

So I suggest you find the oldest and heaviest cut- lass aboard and practice with that, until a smallsword or hanger becomes like a feather in your hand.

Harm had drawn his smallsword and stood with it cocked over his shoulder, and Alan wondered just exactly what good the officer thought a blade was going to do to a ship more than four hundred yards away.

Drawing the smallsword, I cut a ragged piece of cloth out of the shoulderbag, wrapped it around a stone, then stuffed it in my pouch.

I donned an informal casque, then took a smallsword down from the wall and belted it on.

At his side hung the latest rage, one of the new smallswords, this one sporting a golden hilt.