If a swordsman fights with a sword, what do you call one who fights with a knife?
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If a swordsman fights with a sword, what do you call one who fights with a knife?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “you call that a knife“
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Everybody else.
The reason the word “swordsman” showed up is swords are expensive bits of craftsmanship. You need a specially trained artisan to spend quite a bit of time smelting and smithing exceptional ores, and it is a tool intended specifically for war, or at least fighting. If you can’t read between the lines, this translates to “very expensive.”
Everyone can afford a knife. It takes a blacksmith using leftover scraps only a few minutes, and you will use knives for everything from buttering bread to butchering to cutting peas… Everybody in medieval times carried knives, and often the potential as a weapon was only incidental.
There’s not a special word for it because you don’t invent a special word to describe everybody. Well, other than “human,” anyway.
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Per dictionary.com:
knifeman
/ˈnaɪfmən/
noun (pl) -men
1.
a man who is armed with a knife, esp unlawfully
…..
Historically the use of knives to fight or as a weapon has been considered either a desperation act or the method of an assassin.
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I’ve always used the term “knife fighter”. The question is just asking for a term, not the outcome of sword vs. knife…
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It depends. If he fights with a knife against someone with a gun, I’d call him a “victim”. If he fights with someone armed with a machete, I’d call him “Slash”.
Successfully taking on an opponent with a knife requires skill and training. You can’t just produce a knife and whip it around like they do in the movies. If you aren’t willing to undergo training, the best way to win a fight with a knife is to produce it before the first blow and hope that deters the opponent. Failing that, I’d produce the knife at the last minute and strike a lethal blow before they realize you have it.
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A felon here in Commiefornia, even in self defense. True story. If anyone values the natural right to self defense then stay the hell out of here because this state doesn’t give a rat’s ass about you or your rights over the rights of the aggressor.
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The victim? (Almost certainly if he faces someone with a sword right?)
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An assassin. It is a coward’s weapon, used to assault the unwary since it is easily hidden.
The type using it to intimidate could be called a thug or a bravo, but that’s still just a subset of coward.
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No unit types usually were assigned to using knifes however through history some people have. Assassin and burglar army units tend to hold knifes on their holster which was used for quick clean kills however a sword was used more since it wasn’t that heavy for a full working soldier.
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Dead sword target.
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A knife fighter.
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A gutsy bastard, especially if he’s going against a swordsman.
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Unarmed. Or poorly armed. Especially if he’s over the sights of my .45.
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A knife fighter, and in a fight against a swordsman the knife fighter in 95% of cases gains the title “Dead”.
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Bernard. Speficially, he’d be ‘A Man called Bernard’, if Stephen Canfield is to be believed.
If it’s a big knife, Michael J Dundee.
Failing that, something American sounding like Jim Bowie, Brett Riverboat, or “Dangerous” Dan McGrew…
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You would call a swordsman who fights with a knife stupid, or desperate, but most likely you would call him dead.
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