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Word Meanings - SWORDPLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fencing; a sword fight.

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  • FENCE MONTH
    the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
  • FENCER
    One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
  • SWORDLESS
    Destitute of a sword.
  • SWORDSMANSHIP
    The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
  • SWORD-SHAPED
    Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
  • FIGHTINGLY
    Pugnaciously.
  • SWORDING
    Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
  • FENCEFUL
    Affording defense; defensive. Congreve.
  • SWORDED
    Girded with a sword. Milton.
  • FIGHT
    fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
  • SWORDSMAN
    1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
  • FIGHTWITE
    A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
  • SWORDFISH
    A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker , a remora which attaches itself to the swordfish. (more info) A very large oceanic fish , the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones
  • SWORD
    One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer
  • FENCING
    1. The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the s,allword. See Fence, v. i., 2. 2. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. Shak. 3. The materials used for building fences. 4. The act of building
  • FIGHTING
    1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. -- Fighting crab ,
  • FENCELESS
    Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless. Milton.
  • SWORDMAN
    A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.
  • SWORDPLAY
    Fencing; a sword fight.
  • SWORDER
    One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. Shak.
  • DEFENCE
    See DEFENSE
  • BROADSWORD
    A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
  • FOOTFIGHT
    A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
  • CAMPFIGHT
    A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
  • BUSHFIGHTING
    Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
  • BUSHFIGHTER
    One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.
  • CLOSE-FIGHTS
    Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
  • COCKFIGHTING
    The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

 

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