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). < n.1537 |
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