Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses a sword habitually; a swordsman; hence, by extension, one who is nothing but a swordsman; a gladiator or bravo.
- noun A game-cock that wounds its antagonist freely with the gaffs; a cutter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who uses, or fights with, a sword.
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Examples
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Hereupon the King called his sworder of vengeance, who came with his lads, and said to him, “Take this gallows bird and strike off his head and after do the like with this harlot and burn their bodies, and consult me not about them a second time.”
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Hereupon the King called his sworder of vengeance, who came with his lads, and said to him, "Take this gallows bird and strike off his head and after do the like with this harlot and burn their bodies, and consult me not about them a second time."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Before marriage the bridegroom trains himself for a month on beef, honey and milk; and, if he can open his bride with the natural weapon, he is a sworder to whom no woman in the tribe can deny herself.
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The sword, the sworder and the bloodskin waiting me I sight, ii.
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When King Teghmus heard this, he said to his troops, ‘Which of you will do single battle with this sworder?’
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Barmecide, Abu al-Nowás al-Hasan son of Háni72 and Masrur the sworder; and the reason of their coming to the house was that the Caliph, being heavy at heart, had summoned his Minister and said, O
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So they seated me on the rug of blood and bound my eyes; after which the sworder drew his sword and asking leave of the Wali, was about to strike off my head, whilst I cried out, ‘Alas, my strangerhood!’ when lo and behold!
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So the sworder raised arm and sword, and was about to strike when behold, an old woman of venerable aspect presented herself before the King, who rose to do her honour, and said to him, “O King, did I not bid thee remember, when the Captain came back with captives, to keep one or two for the convent, to serve in the church?”
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“Unworthy sinner that I am,” she said, “that for my sake a man so holy, and so high in spiritual office, should wear the garb of a base sworder, and run the risk of dying the death of a traitor!”
The Abbot 2008
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So the sworder took him and, making him kneel on the carpet of blood, drew his sword above him and said to the Caliph, “O Commander of the Faithful, this thy slave is misguided and is on the way to his grave; shall I smite off his head and be quit of his blood?”
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