backsword

English

From back +‎ sword.

backsword (plural backswords)

A sword with one sharp edge.
- 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 140:
  It [the dáo of the Nágá tribe, south-east of Assam] is a thick, heavy backsword, eighteen inches long, with a bevel where the point should be, worn at the waist in a half-scabbard of wood, and used for digging as well as killing.
(UK, dated)
1. A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
  Synonym: singlestick
2. The game in which the stick is used.
  - 1842, The Asiatic Journal […] :
    One afternoon, as the missionary and I were sitting outside our tents, my attention was attracted towards a group of sepahis engaged under a banyantree, playing the game of backsword […]

sword with one sharp edge