英:['bæksɔ:d]
美:['bæksɔd]
英:['bæksɔ:d]
美:['bæksɔd]
木剑
The first known use of backsword was in 1597
1 In old times there was, to a certain extent—in the days when each village was divided against its neighbour, and fiercely contested with it the honour of sending forth the best backsword player.
2 An ye think I be no true man, get down upon the path, and whether at fists, backsword, or bow and arrow, I will prove my manhood on your body.”
3 His weapon was, I believe, not the rapier, but the backsword, of which he recommends the use in his book on education.
4 Then tossed he the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dagger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a cloak, with a target.
5 What are those strange, clattering noises, like the sound of men fighting with wooden 'backswords'?
6 A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes.
7 They had swords and knives of a foot and a halfe long, and hattchetts very ingeniously done, and clubbs of wood made like backswords; some made of a round head that I admired it.
8 In the same manner, he proved satisfactorily, that the word sword comprehended all descriptions, whether backsword or basket-hilt, cut-and-thrust or rapier, falchion, or scimitar.