single-stickn.

Forms: Also singlestick.

Etymology: < single adj. + stick n.¹

a. Fighting, fencing, or exercise with a stick provided with a guard or basket and requiring only one hand.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun]

waster1519

wastership1575

single billeta1625

cudgels1630

quarterstaff1631

cudgel-playa1635

back-sword1699

cudgel-playing1717

hurlbatting1744

single-stick1771

short-staff1775

cudgelling1787

stick fighting1845

stick play1849

back-swording1857

kendo1921

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 109 An excise-man, whom he challenged to a bout at single stick.

1806 Sporting Mag. 27 5 A grand match at single-stick was played at..Botley.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 519 He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates.

1895 J. C. Snaith Dorothy Marvin xxxii To fence and play singlestick or quarterstaff.

attributive.1881 Times 2 Feb. 10/5 The single-stick play..was remarkable for its ambidexterity.1885 C. E. Pascoe 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun] > stick

waster1455

hilt1609

sworda1648

lath sword1697

tickler1765

sword of lath1819

basket-stick1833

single-stick1837

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott III. i. 8 Tall, vigorous, athletic, a dauntless horseman, and expert at the singlestick.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxii. 310 A man who..has his opponent's single stick before him.

Categories »

c. ‘A wooden sword used on board ship for teaching the use of the cutlas’ ( Cent. Dict.).

Derivatives

single-stick v. (intransitive) to fight or fence with a single-stick.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > fence with sticks or cudgels [verb (intransitive)]

stave1663

to play a good stick?a1800

cudgel1840

single-stick1900

1900 G. Swift Somerley 39 I was Laertes because I could singlestick rather well.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	single-stick
释义	single-stickn. Forms: Also singlestick. Etymology: < single adj. + stick n.¹ a. Fighting, fencing, or exercise with a stick provided with a guard or basket and requiring only one hand. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun] waster1519 wastership1575 single billeta1625 cudgels1630 quarterstaff1631 cudgel-playa1635 back-sword1699 cudgel-playing1717 hurlbatting1744 single-stick1771 short-staff1775 cudgelling1787 stick fighting1845 stick play1849 back-swording1857 kendo1921 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 109 An excise-man, whom he challenged to a bout at single stick. 1806 Sporting Mag. 27 5 A grand match at single-stick was played at..Botley. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 519 He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates. 1895 J. C. Snaith Dorothy Marvin xxxii To fence and play singlestick or quarterstaff. attributive.1881 Times 2 Feb. 10/5 The single-stick play..was remarkable for its ambidexterity.1885 C. E. Pascoe 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun] > stick waster1455 hilt1609 sworda1648 lath sword1697 tickler1765 sword of lath1819 basket-stick1833 single-stick1837 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott III. i. 8 Tall, vigorous, athletic, a dauntless horseman, and expert at the singlestick. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxii. 310 A man who..has his opponent's single stick before him. Categories » c. ‘A wooden sword used on board ship for teaching the use of the cutlas’ ( Cent. Dict.). Derivatives single-stick v. (intransitive) to fight or fence with a single-stick. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > fence with sticks or cudgels [verb (intransitive)] stave1663 to play a good stick?a1800 cudgel1840 single-stick1900 1900 G. Swift Somerley 39 I was Laertes because I could singlestick rather well. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1771
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