society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > strike with sword [verb (transitive)] > strike with specific type of sword (4)
transitive. To pierce with a ‘fox’ (see fox, n. 6).
transitive. To strike, cut, or wound with a sabre.
transitive. To stab with a rapier. Chiefly figurative: to attack as with a rapier; to comment pointedly or cuttingly. Also with direct speech as…
(transitive) to stab with a whinger.