Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sword made expressly for use in the chase, to kill the game when it is brought to bay.
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Examples
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Bucklaw, with the dexterity proper to an accomplished cavalier of the day, sprang from his horse, and dashing suddenly and swiftly at the stag, brought him to the ground by a cut on the hind leg with his short hunting-sword.
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When the infuriated animal felt himself wounded, he pushed franticly towards her from whom he had received the shaft, and Lady Eleanor might have had occasion to repent of her enterprise had not young Fitzallen, who had kept near her during the whole day, at that instant galloped briskly in, and ere the stag could change his object of assault, despatched him with his short hunting-sword.
Waverley 2004
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His hand flew to the short hunting-sword at his hip, and he recoiled from the tall gray steel figure standing in the dusk before him.
The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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His hand flew to the short hunting-sword at his hip, and he recoiled from the tall gray steel figure standing in the dusk before him.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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His hand flew to the short hunting-sword at his hip, and he recoiled from the tall gray steel figure standing in the dusk before him.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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His hand flew to the short hunting-sword at his hip, and he recoiled from the tall gray steel figure standing in the dusk before him.
The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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His hand flew to the short hunting-sword at his hip, and he recoiled from the tall gray steel figure standing in the dusk before him.
The Hour of the Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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Whipping out his hunting-sword, "To arms! to arms!" he roared to the passengers; and away he flew, the foremost of all, upon the buccaneers.
Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Algerian girdle-cloth, or lay aside his armoury; the lumpy-handled hunting-sword pounded his ribs, and the leather revolver-case made his thigh raw.
Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868
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A belt around his waist is richly embroidered; and the hilt of a short hunting-sword, protruding from the sheath, appears chased and studded with jewels.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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