swordingn.
Striking with a sword; exercise with the sword, fencing (in quot. 1899 attributive).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun]
buckler-playing1468
fence1533
defence1549
noble science1549
buckler-play1575
fencing1581
digladiation1589
sword-play1627
escrime1652
the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724
science1729
swordmanship1781
swordsmanship1851
swording1891
sword-work1913
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > [noun] > action of striking or fighting with sword
lashingc1400
foining1523
rapier and dagger1571
blading1577
cut and thrust1840
swording1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Swording, slashing with a sword.
1899 S. R. Crockett Black Douglas (1900) 94 I also won the swording prize at the last wappenshaw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
swordingadj.
Obsolete or archaic.
Martial, warlike, military.
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society > armed hostility > war > [adjective] > warlike
bellical1513
Mavortian1557
warrious1581
Mavortial1595
swording1611
armiferous1656
bellatory1657
bellic1661
Bellonian1710
warrish1747
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 667/2 The Duke brought with him foure hundred men, the Earle of Salisburie fiue hundreth, the Earle of Warwicke sixe hundreth: The Dukes of Excester and Sommerset eight hundreth, the Earle of Northumberland, the Lords Egremond and Clifford fifteene hundreth. This was the fashion of that swording age.
a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) II. ii. 20 Our Fore-fathers..lived in those Swording times, when all was in an uprore.
1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-Mother i. iii. 20 These swording-men are holier things than we.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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