singlestick
nounEtymology From single + stick.
1
A one-handed wooden stick used for fencing in place of a sword.
- [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:
- Scottish broadsword training methods included practice with the singlestick. The singlestick is a wooden rod (usually ash) with a basket hilt. Length was usually 3 feet (just under a meter).2010, Thomas A. Green, Joseph R. Svinth, Martial Arts of the World:
2
A martial art, sport or exercise using a cudgel or backsword.
- Derived terms
- singlesticker