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▪ I. ˈswording, vbl. n.
[f. sword v. + -ing1.]
Striking with a sword; exercise with the sword, fencing (in quot. 1899 attrib.).
1891Cent. Dict., Swording, slashing with a sword. 1899Crockett Black Douglas (1900) 94, I also won the swording prize at the last wappenshaw.
▪ II. ˈswording, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.
[f. sworder: see -ing2.]
Martial, warlike, military.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §68 The Duke brought with him foure hundreth men, the Earle of Salisbury fiue hundreth, the Earle of Warwicke sixe hundreth: The Dukes of Excester and Sommerset eight hundreth, the Earle of Northumberland, the Lords Egremont and Clifford fifteene hundreth. This was the fashion of that swording age. a1659Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) II. ii. 20 Our Fore-fathers..lived in those Swording times, when all was in an uprore. 1860Swinburne Queen-Mother i. iii, These swording-men are holier things than we. |