The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [450] Close.

[ [451] Prompt, swift, ready.

[ [452] From the French, empêcher, to hinder or withstand, here used for attack.

[ [453] Throat.

[ [454] Power, strength.

[ [455] Than is required, that is in time of real action.

[ [456] It is the same.

[ [457] A quincto auctore nomen habebat, vide Joan Meursi, de Ludis Græcorum, in tit Κονταξ Κυντανος.

[ [458] Vegetius de re militari. lib. i. cap. xi. et xiv.

[ [459] Κυντανον χονταξ χωρις της πυρπις, quintanum contacem sine fibula. Cod. de aleatoribus, lib. iii. tit. 43.