swordcraft (sord kraft)

Knowledge of or skill in the use of the sword; management by the sword or military power; military compulsion. [Rare.] They learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft. Motley, Rise of Dutch Republic, I. 31. 1. A blow with the sword-cut (sõrd kut), n. edge of a sword. In the language of fencing a blow of the edge of a sword. Seam'd with an ancient sword cut on the cheek. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine.