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A backsword is a type of European sword characterized by having a straight single-edged blade and a hilt with a single-handed grip.
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backsword and is
For example the backsword may be so called because it is single-edged but the falchion which is also single-edged is given its own specific name.
The sabre or saber ( see spelling differences ) is a kind of backsword that usually has a curved, single-edged blade and a rather large hand guard, covering the knuckles of the hand as well as the thumb and forefinger.
The term " backsword " can also refer to the singlestick, which is used to train for fighting with the backsword, or to the sport or art of fighting in this fashion.
* Short-sword ( arming sword ), backsword --> bastard sword, broadsword ( two-handed sword ) --> long sword --> two-hander (" great sword " although this is a recently coined term ).
The Swiss sabre ( German, Schweizersäbel ) is a type of backsword or early sabre design that was popular in Early Modern Switzerland.
* Bouzan / Bowsan / Monk: A Time Shifter that collects weapons ( especially the naginata and the backsword ) and is an expert samurai.
The treatise itself is a manual detailing the use of the rapier, rapier and dagger, backsword, sword and dagger, and quarterstaff, prefaced with eleven chapters of moral and social advice relating to fencing, self defense, and honor.
backsword and type
From around the early 14th century the backsword became the first type of European sword to be fitted with a knuckle guard.
* Dao ( sword ), a type of Chinese backsword
backsword and sword
After the demise of the longsword, the backsword became the last prominent battlefield sword.
* A treatise on backsword, sword, buckler, sword and dagger, sword and great gauntlet, falchon, quarterstaff-Captain James Miller ( 1737 )
It bears approximately the same relationship to the backsword as the foil to the small sword in being a sporting version of the weapon for safe practice.
The original form of the singlestick was the waster, which appeared in the 16th century and was merely a wooden sword used in practice for the backsword ( see sabre ), and of the same general shape.
It should be noted that the Masters of Defence competition organised by Henry VIII in July 1540 lists the basket-hilted sword as a backe sworde ( backsword ) and not as a " brode sworde " ( broadsword ) nor as a " basket-hilted " sword.
* Espadon 1 ) a two-handed sword, 2 ) a backsword or " Walloon sword ";
* Broadsword 1 ) a two-handed sword, 2 ) a Scottish basket-hilted sword, Schiavona, backsword or more rarely, a sabre.
backsword and by
Alongside the scythes, the song mentioned other types of weapon, traditionally used by the Polish szlachta, or nobility: the sabre, known in Polish as szabla, and the backsword.
The backsword was not a new invention, but managed to outlast other forms of war swords, and was last used primarily by cavalry units and officers.
" One of them beat him down to the ground by a stroke on the head with his backsword.
backsword and hilt
When the basket hilt came into general use about twenty five years later, a wicker one was added to the singlestick, replacing the heavy metal hilt of the backsword.
backsword and with
When, with a backsword in hand,
However, in some cases the term may also refer to weapons with a single edge ( backsword ).
The guards, cuts and parries in singlestick play were at first identical with those of backsword play, no thrusts being allowed ( see Fencing ).
Under Kings George I and George II, backsword play with sticks was immensely popular under the names cudgel-play and singlesticking, not only in the cities but in the countryside as well, wrestling being its only rival.
backsword and .
A number of weapons superficially similar to the falchion existed in Western Europe, including the Messer, hanger and the backsword.
* B. Dussack ( backsword )
By then the Games, known as Dover's Meeting, were well established and once again quite popular, and included events such as backsword fighting.
is and type
) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.
His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.
The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.
But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.
Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy off the bristles.
The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.
This type of borrowing can be reduced to a minimum if quarterly installment payment of taxes is instituted and the first payment placed near the opening of the fiscal year.
It indicates the same thing but it is meant to pertain more specifically to establishments designed to cater to smaller type boats such as outboards.
Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.
Laguerre Hanover is outstanding in type and conformation -- good body, plenty of heart girth, stands straight on his legs on excellent feet -- and has the smoothest gait.
Fury is upstanding and on the rangy side, and Caper is more the compact type.
Torrid Adios ( Torrid-Adios Molly ) is not so masculine as most of the colts, but I like his type and he certainly is one of the best-gaited pacers on the grounds.
After notching it for the keelson, chines and battens, the half-inch plywood transom is secured to it with glue and the same type nails.
It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.
New to the field is a duplex type butyrate laminate in which the two sheets of the laminate are of different color.
Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..
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