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n. - A stick used instead of a sword for fencing.

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Usage examples (30)
  • I used to be a fair hand with singlestick not long ago.
  • George Fairburn had ever been an adept at all school games, and had spent many a leisure hour at singlestick.
  • Captain Galsworthy was a frequent visitor, and though he was past eighty, insisted on giving our boys their first lessons with the singlestick.
  • In the compass of eighteen pages of a work now before us we have details of no less than two grand matches of singlestick, one Wiltshire against
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