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Definitions of dueling in various dictionaries:
verb - fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman
verb - to fight formally
DUELING - A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules. Duels in this form were ch...
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Swordplay, e.g. |
Swashbuckling activity |
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Dec 19 2010 Newsday.com |
Sep 3 2009 New York Times |
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In 1839, 35 years after Alexander Hamilton died, Congress made this illegal in the District of Columbia |
Ah will not sully mah hand in this barbaric practice that resulted in Button Gwinnett's 1777 death! Good day, suh! |
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Present participle of duel. |
fight a duel or duels. |
A contest with deadly weapons arranged between two people in order to settle a point of honour. |
Fight a duel or duels. |
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A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules. Duels in this form were chiefly practiced in early modern Europe with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period (19th to early 20th centuries) especially among military officers. * During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly fought with swords (the rapier, and later the smallsword), but beginning in the late 18th century in England, duels were more commonly fought using pistols. Fencing and pistol duels continued to co-exist throughout the 19th century. * The duel was based on a code of honor. Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain "satisfaction", that is, to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of dueling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility; however, in the modern era it extended to those of the |