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single-stick, n.
Also singlestick.
[f. single a. + stick n.]
Fighting, fencing, or exercise with a stick provided with a guard or basket and requiring only one hand.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 200 An exciseman, whom he challenged to a bout at single-stick. 1806Sporting Mag. XXVII. 5 A grand match at single-stick was played at..Botley. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvii, He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates. 1895J. C. Snaith Mistress Dorothy Marvin xxxii, To fence and play singlestick or quarterstaff.
attrib.1881Times 2 Feb. 10/5 The single-stick play..was remarkable for its ambidexterity. 1885Pascoe London of To-day xiii. 139 The main features of the tournament are single-stick combats, sword and bayonet contests [etc.].
b. A stick used for this.
1837Lockhart Scott III. i. 8 Tall, vigorous, athletic, a dauntless horseman, and expert at the singlestick. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xxxi, A man who..has his opponent's singlestick before him.
c. ‘A wooden sword used on board ship for teaching the use of the cutlas’ (Cent. Dict.).
Hence single-stick v. intr., to fight or fence with a single-stick.
1900G. Swift Somerley 39, I was Laertes because I could singlestick rather well. |