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Definition of Fencing stick
1. Noun. A stick used instead of a sword for fencing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fencing Stick
Literary usage of Fencing stick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japanese Plays (versified). by Thomas Russell Hillier McClatchie (1890)
"... the Japanese fencing-stick, formed of slips of bamboo bound together with
catgut and leather. t ..."
2. Methods of Teaching Gymnastics by William Gilbert Anderson (1896)
"The teacher will find that the young men take delight in striking hard blows,
the result of which is the destruction of the dowel or fencing stick. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"... only to astonish me, but to make me feel the responsibility of knowing that
I held in my hand a weapon instead of the mere fencing-stick I had supposed. ..."
4. Travels and Researches in Caffraria: Describing the Character, Customs, and by Stephen Kay (1834)
"She then sat down again; and, after resting awhile, rose a second time, and with
an itonga, or fencing-stick in her hand, exerted herself to the very ..."
5. James Russell Lowell: A Biography by Horace Elisha Scudder (1901)
"... only to astonish me, but to make me feel the responsibility of knowing that
I held in my hand a weapon instead of the mere fencing stick I had supposed. ..."
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