swordsman

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Meaning

A soldier; a fighting man.

One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double. Ian McDiarmid

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. Matsuo Bashō

The recruit must be carefully and sedulously taught when meeting the enemy, even at a trot or canter, to use no force whatever, otherwise his sword will bury itself to the hilt, and the swordsman will either be dragged from his horse, or will be compelled to drop his weapon - if he can. Richard Francis Burton

Honor Harrington: The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do. (paraphrase on Mark Twain) David Weber

A good swordsman is never quarrelsome. French Proverb

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. French Proverb

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