By-blow

//ˈbʌɪbləʊ// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A blow struck to the side or from the side, as in swordplay; a secondary or incidental strike of any sort.

    "Either commander took speedy advantage of it—Hopton to make a swift diversion into Sussex and capture Arundel Castle (which was but a by-blow, for in a few weeks he had lost it again)."

  2. 2
    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents wordnet
  3. 3
    An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father. slang

    "‘Nay,’ said the landlady, ‘if I thought he was a gentleman's son, thof he was a bye-blow, I should behave to him in another guess manner; for many of these bye-blows come to be great men, and, as my poor first husband used to say, never affront any customer that's a gentleman.’"

Etymology

From by- + blow.

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