fencing sword


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Noun1.fencing sword - a sword used in the sport of fencingfencing sword - a sword used in the sport of fencing
epee - a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
foil - a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
saber, sabre - a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle
sword, steel, blade, brand - a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
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She was barely 12 when she picked up a fencing sword for the very first time, at Aspire Academy.
That little charade was foiled by the tap dancing basketball player with my step mum's fencing sword on top of the grand piano, an 18-year-old man child in the bath with all the booze he could carry to the house, a couple kissing in the kitchen, and enough pot noodles to fuel us through a nuclear apocalypse.
A real fencing sword handle holds sola flowers, sugar skulls, coloured pins, cracken, anchors, skull and cross bones and feathers, with tartan ribbon to cover the underside of the bouquet (approx 8-9ins, PS275).
When they came across the churn of a fencing sword as it bends when it hits its target, the sport became its main inspiration.
A NEIGHBOURS' dispute in Huddersfield ended with two men going into the street, one armed with a fencing sword and the other a meat cleaver.
Next to Simon's gun, Jared gets a bat and a slingshot, while Mallory wields a fencing sword, and all three children are capable of executing a handful of special evasive maneuvers.
Woodcock," the young Hungarian gymnast Miklos Dongo in "White Palms" is routinely disciplined by a tyrannical coach who smacks his students with a fencing sword when they stumble.
Mr Bates then picked up a fencing sword in a desperate bid to stop the two masked men from escaping but was beaten to the ground with a crowbar by Williams.