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Sworder

Sworder \Sword"er\, n. One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [Obs.]
--Shak.

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sworder

n. (context obsolete English) One who uses, or fights with, a sword.

Usage examples of "sworder".

Not a seaman on these coasts but had heard of the ruddy giant with his ax and burning beard, and the dark-visaged sworder in black mail.

Gibb mentions copious milk-secretion in an infant, and Sworder and Menard have seen young babes with abundant milk-secretion.

Suddenly she came in on the two sworders with a scared, transfigured face.

In such wise that eleven stout sworders of Witchland were slain by him, and fifteen besides were sorely wounded.