half-sword

The weapon was used in the half-sword, with one or both hands on the blade.

I am a rogue if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours together.

Without the full weight of the blade, Kylar brought his half-sword down faster than the big man could react and stabbed for his stomach.

While there is nothing to stop an estoc being one-handed, most were two-handed, being used half-sword or two hands on the grip.

Blackthorne ran forward and picked up a long half-sword, half-spear and raced nearer to Toranaga.

Half-sword is used for leverage advantage when wrestling with the sword, as well as for delivering a more accurate and powerful thrust.

The General, one hand clutching his half-sword, the other Marie's casket, was pelting down the steps toward the sanctuary of the darkness beyond the torchlight.

Half-sword, in 14th- to 16th-century fencing with longswords, refers to the technique of gripping the central part of the sword blade with the left hand in order to execute more forceful thrusts against armoured and unarmoured opponents.

Most medieval treatises show armoured combat as consisting primarily of fighting at the half-sword; the best options against an armoured man being a strong thrust into less-protected areas such as the armpits or throat or, even better, the same against a man who has already been cast to the ground.