parrying dagger

He reached the landing with Bar and his parrying dagger ready.

The extra two served as parrying daggers but if none were available, the sheath would serve the same purpose.

Then he slipped his parrying dagger into the sheath stitched inside the top of his left boot.

He left his parrying dagger in the thief's body and gripped his sword in both hands.

The warrior brought his parrying dagger up to his face, tapping himself lightly in the forehead with the pommel.

He considered sheathing his parrying dagger and using a throwing weapon, perhaps a dart or knife, to remove the intruders one by one.

The parrying dagger is a category of small hand-held weapons from the European late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

As Dralan charged, Laronnar snatched at the parrying dagger Haylis carried on his belt.

They came from a lifetime of analysing seen and unseen, legitimate and racial enemies, parrying dagger thrusts with counterthrusts in the blackest darkness.

But the rittmaster bore only his rapier, and so, inevitably, Springbuck blocked with his parrying dagger and found clear way for Bar.

The High Constable dismounted with a troop of her riders and, with swords and parrying daggers, slipped in among the flashing polearms.

The elven sword struck Ferret's parrying dagger with a force that sent bright sparks of pain dancing up her arm to explode in her head like festival fireworks.

He also drilled daily with sword and parrying dagger with the best masters-of-arms in Freegate, aware that he might yet have to face mighty Strongblade in single competition.

The other swords were smaller: an old, worn broadsword with a counterweight at the bottom and a main-gauche-a one and a half foot long parrying dagger with a large basket hilt and wide blade.

Similar in design to a parrying dagger, the poignard emerged during the Middle Ages and was used during the Renaissance in Western Europe, particularly in France, Switzerland, and Italy.

These swords did not provide a full two-hand grip but they allowed its wielders to hold a shield or parrying dagger in their off hand, or to use it as a two-handed sword for a more powerful blow.

He then cut a green twig with his parrying dagger and stripped the bark, crushing one end to separate the fibers, and cleaned his teeth with it, a practice the late Faurbuhl had enjoined him to follow daily.

In the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), rapier combat makes use of various forms of off-hand device, including parrying daggers, batons, cloaks, and a second sword, which in fencing is termed "case of rapier".

Springbuck, who'd been fingering his sword hilt nervously, now clapped his hand to it and went for his parrying dagger, convinced that the combat vaguely mentioned by the King had been joined and certain that he, too, was about to be assaulted.

Because of Doble Baston (double weapons) or Espada y Daga (sword and parrying dagger) ambidextrous weapon muscle memory conditioning, Eskrima practitioners find it easy to use the off-hand actively once they transition from using it with a weapon to an empty hand.

He thought of the parrying dagger in his left boot top, and it occurred to him that if he could bring it into play unexpectedly, the main-gauche might give him an advantage for one critical exchange; but again, possibly not, since Eliatim fought in the new profiled style, forcing Springbuck to do the same.