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† staff-sword Obs.
[Cf. OHG. stapaswert, MHG. stab-, stapswert, Du. stafsweerd (Kilian), etc.]
A sword-stick.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 143/21 Dolones, stæf-sweord. c1470Henry Wallace iii. 178 With a staff suerd Boyd stekit him that tyde. Ibid. vi. 737 With a staff suerd off steill. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 543 Neither Aristotles..one shooe for both feet, nor Platoes staffe-sword. |