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单词 pugil stick
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pugil stick
In full pugil stick. A staff or pole with padded ends, used as a substitute for a rifle and bayonet in military training.
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1954 Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 16 Apr. 7/3 The method was tested with the ‘pugil stick’, a staff as long as a rifle with a bayonet fixed and heavily padded on both ends.
1962 Infantry Nov.–Dec. 26/3 The students engage in pugil bouts, applying all the movements taught in earlier periods with the rifle.
1964 A. N. Hardin Amer. Bayonet 1776–1964 188 Modern U.S. Marine Corps practice virtually eliminates fencing bayonets by substituting the ‘Pugil Stick’ technique.
1967 Britannica Bk. of Year 1966 804/1 Pugil or Pugil stick, a padded club with large rounded ends used in bayonet practice by the military as a substitute for rifle with fixed bayonet.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 28 June 4– b/1 The first of three sergeants..was accused of violating orders in the conduct of the..pugil stick bouts in which the recruit was pounded into a coma.
1990 D. Peterson Dress Gray ii. 46 The pugil sticks were used to prepare officers to fight with bayonets and rifle butts when bullets were strategically or logistically not the best alternative.
2003 D. Lipsky Absolutely Amer. iii. 182 The cadets won't actually train with rifles and bayonets; instead, they'll spar with pugil sticks—long, Star Wars -looking staffs with padded ends.
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