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Centauromachy

A fight in which centaurs take part a common theme for relief sculpture as in the Parthenon metopes

Close fights

Barriers with loopholes formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemys boarders called also close quarters

Bushfighting

Fighting in the bush or from behind bushes trees or thickets

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Monomachist

One who fights in single combat a duelist

Duelist

One who fights in single combat

Pugilist

One who fights with his fists esp a professional prize fighter a boxer

Sciomachy

A fighting with a shadow a mock contest an imaginary or futile combat

Fighter

One who fights a combatant a warrior

Duel

if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47. Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were by no means unfrequent

Campfight

so as either to make him yield or take him a prisoner. The accused might choose another to fight in his stead, but the accuser was obliged to fight in his own person. See BATTEL, WAGER OF.

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