singlestick

I used to be a fair hand with singlestick not long ago."

He won the silver medal in the singlestick competition.

A game called 'singlestick' was also devised and practiced.

The English martial art singlestick is very similar.

Sos brought out the club: the weapon no longer than the singlestick and fashioned of similar material, but far more hefty.

The Shadow was using Verdugo's hollow cane as a singlestick.

Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.

Cut, guard and point, the three elements of sword fencing, chanced also to be the exercises used in singlestick practice.

He is described by Watson as an expert at singlestick and twice uses his cane as a weapon.

He had one singlestick in his hand and the other tucked in his waist band, ready to draw.

On a hunch abetted by observation, Var took a singlestick and scraped the wall.

When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at the archery or at singlestick.

Sot reached inside his barrow so quickly that his hand was a blur and whipped out a singlestick.

The singlestick was no club, but still could easily knock out a man, and Sos was momentarily shaken.

Persano," an athlete, duelist and singlestick competitor of awesome accomplishment.

Blade had also used his knowledge of kendo and singlestick fighting to work out ways of using the swords as clubs.

Figg was also a great fencer that engaged in sword duels and singlestick matches.

The singlestick itself is a slender, round wooden rod, traditionally of ash, with a basket hilt.

With the introduction of the light Italian fencing sabre in the early 20th century, singlestick play became unnecessary and was subsequently neglected.

Then he moved to the nearest guard tower, climbed it noiselessly and tapped the rifleman on the head with a makeshift singlestick.

The martial art of singlestick is more or less entirely derived from the use of wasters as practice weapons in place of broadswords.

The guards, cuts and parries in singlestick play were at first identical with those of backsword play, no thrusts being allowed (see Fencing).

The men's singlestick was a singlestick event held as part of the fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme.

Canne de combat, a French form of stick fighting, is similar to singlestick play, but is more a method of self-defense with a walking stick.

In 1904 he won the silver medal in individual sabre competition and a bronze medal in singlestick competition.