sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
rising from a crouch to charge; initial charge; face-off
tire track; traces of a person or thing; path one has taken; locus
favorite sword; cherished sword
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
herculean strength; mountain carrier-guide
exchange of blows; long rally
full; wholehearted; utmost; overall width
blow; shock; strike; batting
rivalry (between two equally strong sides); struggle for supremacy; competing (with); vying (with); contending (with); being an equal match (for)
what time; (lit.) which hour
to fight; to compete; to contest; to argue; to dispute heatedly
to unravel; to untie; to break into small pieces (of fish, meat, etc.); to relax; to ease
to accord someone every courtesy
hollow; cavity; dent; depression
to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death
brilliance; luster; lustre; vividness; life
to spend time (on doing something)
postponement; deferment; extension (of time)
to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire
to win and advance to the next round
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
to be defeated; to be beaten; to be unsuccessful; to lose
ripple (on water); wavelets; ripple (e.g. of uneasiness); unrest; disturbance
foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury
critical (touch and go) situation; explosive situation
remains; corpse; (dead) body
the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result