Backsword vs Backword - What's the difference?
backsword | backword |
A sword with one sharp edge.
* 1884 : Robert F. Burton, The Book of the Sword , page 140.
(UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
(UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
As nouns the difference between backsword and backword
is that backsword is a sword with one sharp edge while backword is a contention, retort, or reply.backsword
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is a thick, heavy backsword, eighteen inches long, with a bevel where the point should be, worn at the waist in a half-scabbard of wood, and used for digging as well as killing.
- (Halliwell)