1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus (1636) iii. xx. 239 To fight..about the funerall fire, as if it would cleere all passed disgrace, if of a sword player, hee become a giver of sword-games.
1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg 216 The souls of warriors who had fallen in battle, and now imitated the sword-games they had played on earth.