To fence; to make flourishes with a weapon.

To make a noise as of swords clashing or of a sword beating on a shield (cf. swashbuckler, n.); to fence with swords; to bluster with or as with…

to blade it: to fight. to blade it out: to fight a matter out with the sword. Obsolete.

to fight, play,etc. at the sharp, at sharp(s: to fight with unbated swords, to fight in earnest, in contradistinction to fencing. to goor come to the…

To lay (a thing) across or athwart another; to set (things) across each other; to place crosswise. Also, to place (one limb) over another.