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singlesticks

singlesticks is the plural of singlestick.

Meaning of singlestick

Noun

singlestick (countable and uncountable, plural singlesticks)

  1. A one-handed wooden stick used for fencing in place of a sword.
    • [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82
  2. (uncountable) A martial art, sport or exercise using a cudgel or backsword.

Questions about singlesticks

What is singlesticks the plural of?
Singlesticks is the plural of singlestick.

Words near singlesticks in the dictionary

  1. singles up
  2. Singles' Day
  3. singlestick
  4. singlesticker
  5. singlestickers
  6. singlesticks
  7. singlestranded
  8. singlet
  9. singlet bag
  10. singlet bags
  11. singlet oxygen

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