The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Draw

A deliberate exposure of some point in order to attract the opponent into delivering a stroke, for whose defence and reply one is fuily prepared. Also called Invite.

Draw swords. The order to draw the swords from the scabbards and range them perpendicularly with the full stretch of the arm, the edge being to the rear.

Drawing cut.-A stroke in which the edge, instead of falling motionless, moves along the surface which it meets, thereby increasing its cutting power.

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