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sworder|ˈsɔːdə(r), ˈsɔədə(r)|
[f. sword n. + -er1, after L. gladiātor gladiator.]
1. One who kills another with a sword, an assassin, cut-throat; one who habitually fights with a sword; a gladiator.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI. iv. i. 135 A Romane Sworder, and Bandetto slaue Murder'd sweet Tully. 1606― Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 31 Cæsar will.. be Stag'd to th' shew Against a Sworder. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vi, I am honest, and so forth, you would say, but a hot-brained brawler, and common sworder or stabber. 1837–42Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. ii. 35 These mercenary sworders and musketeers. 1895Athenæum 15 June 778/2 A naked babe..turns his smiling face to the truculent sworder who is about to execute the behest of the weak Herod.
b. = sword-bearer e.
1537[Coverdale] Orig. & Sprynge of Sectes 33 The Swearders. This order weareth whyt also, & .ii. reede sweardes crosse waye vpon a whyte cole [? cote], which signify theyr bloudy knight hode.
2. One skilled in the use of the sword; a swordsman.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles ii. xviii, With blade advanced, each Chieftain bold Show'd like the Sworder's form of old. 1820Byron Juan iv. xlix, The third, a wary, cool old sworder, took The blows upon his cutlass. 1876Earl Albemarle Fifty Years Life I. 106 A splendid horseman, a dexterous sworder. |