▪ I. ˈswording, vbl. n.
[f. sword v. + -ing1.]
Striking with a sword; exercise with the sword, fencing (in quot. 1899 attrib.).
| 1891 Cent. Dict., Swording, slashing with a sword. 1899 Crockett Black Douglas (1900) 94, I also won the swording prize at the last wappenshaw. |
▪ II. ˈswording, ppl. a. Obs. or arch.
[f. sworder: see -ing2.]
Martial, warlike, military.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §68 The Duke brought with him foure hundreth men, the Earle of Salisbury fiue hundreth, the Earle of Warwicke sixe hundreth: The Dukes of Excester and Sommerset eight hundreth, the Earle of Northumberland, the Lords Egremont and Clifford fifteene hundreth. This was the fashion of that swording age. a 1659 Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) II. ii. 20 Our Fore-fathers..lived in those Swording times, when all was in an uprore. 1860 Swinburne Queen-Mother i. iii, These swording-men are holier things than we. |