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backsword (plural backswords)

1. A sword with one sharp edge.

#*1884: Robert F. Burton, The Book of the Sword, page 140.
#:*It 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.

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