| 单词 | sworder | 
| 释义 | swordern. 1.   a.  One who kills another with a sword, an assassin, cut-throat; one who habitually fights with a sword; a gladiator. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > 			[noun]		 > sword swordmanc1400 sword-bearer1530 blader1577 fencer1581 sworder1594 flourisher1598 toss-blade1659 home thruster1682 lunger1842 swordsman1859 the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > 			[noun]		 > killer with sharp instrument sworder1594 sabrer1831 impaler1969 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > 			[noun]		 > gladiator swordmana1387 sword-player1538 gladiator1541 fence-man1558 fencer1587 sworder1594 Samnite1600 sword-fencer1600 mirmilloner1623 mirmillo1638 mirmillon1656 1594    W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2  iv. i. 137  				A Swordar, and bandeto slaue, Murthered sweete Tully. a1616    W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra 		(1623)	  iii. xiii. 30  				Cæsar will.. be Stag'd to'th'shew Against a Sworder .       View more context for this quotation 1828    W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in  Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 152  				I am honest, and so forth, you would say, but a hot-brained brawler, and common sworder or stabber. 1837–42    N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 		(1851)	 II. ii. 35  				These mercenary sworders and musketeers. 1895    Athenæum 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 n. e. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > 			[noun]		 > position of commander in an order > in Poland sworder1537 sword-bearer1656 1537    tr.  Original & Sprynge All Sectes f. 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. ΚΠ 1815    W. Scott Lord of Isles  ii. xviii. 61  				With blade advanced, each Chieftain bold Show'd like the Sworder's form of old. 1821    Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV  xlix. 95  				The third, a wary, cool old sworder, took The blows upon his cutlass. 1876    Ld. Albemarle Fifty Years of my Life I. 106  				A splendid horseman, a dexterous sworder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2018). <  | 
	
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