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rapier

/rey-pee-er/US // ˈreɪ pi ər //UK // (ˈreɪpɪə) //

剑客,剑杆,剑术,剑杆菌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small sword, especially of the 18th century, having a narrow blade and used for thrusting.
    • : a longer, heavier sword, especially of the 16th and 17th centuries, having a double-edged blade and used for slashing and thrusting.

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Examples

  • Rapier shopped the script around, but thankfully no one wanted to pick it up.

  • A rapier and a dagger found on the Thames foreshore show us that swordfights routinely broke out on the streets of London.

  • A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.

  • As you are doubtless aware, between civilians the small-sword, the rapier and the pistol are what are usually employed.

  • Half frantic, I dashed forward, snatching as I did so a rapier from the wall, the only weapon handy.

  • But the next moment he was on his feet, his rapier firmly gripped once more, for all that his arm still felt a trifle numbed.

  • Routledge, with a studio in Rome, and having been educated at a German university, is familiar with the use of the rapier.