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backsword
noun
(
plural
backswords
)
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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