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English
Etymology
From back + sword.
Noun
backsword (plural backswords)
- A sword with one sharp edge.
1884, Richard F Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, , →OCLC, page 140:It [the dáo of the Nágá tribe, south-east of Assam] is a thick, heavy backsword, eighteen inches long, with a bevel where the point should be, worn at the waist in a half-scabbard of wood, and used for digging as well as killing.
- (UK, dated)
- A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
- Synonym: singlestick
- The game in which the stick is used.
1842, The Asiatic Journal :One afternoon, as the missionary and I were sitting outside our tents, my attention was attracted towards a group of sepahis engaged under a banyantree, playing the game of backsword […]
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Translations
sword with one sharp edge
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