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Examples of rapier
rapier
There was no escape for the multiple world champion from Khan's rapier attacks.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It was a rapier thrust and it left Scotland fighting for scraps of consolation.
From the independent.co.uk
Rapier organized the stock company The Register Co. to publish the paper in 1889.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And there have been glimpses of the rapier-like goal threat of his Liverpool days.
From the express.co.uk
He is smug and abrasive and his rhetorical style is blunt rather than rapier.
From the jsonline.com
Rapier was raised in an upper-middle-class home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
From the dailynews.com
These contradictions, and Winston's rapier wit, make him fascinating still.
From the capitaltimes.co.nz
Stewart and Colbert will be there to preside over the ruin with rapier wit.
From the sfgate.com
He's as competitive and feisty as ever, and his rapier sarcasm has sharpened with age.
From the washingtonpost.com
- A straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
- A rapier is a slender, sharply pointed sword, ideally for thrusting attacks, used mainly in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Rapier is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
- A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless); Extremely sharp; Cutting smarts or keen wit
- A slender two-edged sword used chiefly in thrusting.
- A long thin and light sword used predominantly for thrusting. Earlier centuries had bladed rapiers but the blade became less and less used over time. 16th century predominance.
- A form of light, long-bladed sword, often with a complicated guard of thin betal bars, developed in the 16th century for the type of "fencing" reliant largely upon the point rather than the edge, although early forms were used for both cut and thrust.
- A long, curved sword used by early pirates but found to be too long for ship battles.
- A long, double-edged thrusting sword popular in the 16th-17th centuries.
