† staff-swordn.
Obsolete.
A sword-stick.
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c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 143/21 Dolones, stæf-sweord.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 737 With a staff suerd off steill.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 178 With a staff suerd Boyd stekit him that tyde.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 543 Neither Aristotles..one shooe for both feet, nor Platoes staffe-sword.
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