Converse of object

• carry: He carries a rapier, the sword of a gentleman and again, even has a spare in the background of the image.

Adjective modifier

• sharp: And what does this sharp rapier of light represent, as a picture?

• elegant: The elegant rapier was used in preference to the older, clumsier cutting swords.

• Italian: Mine comes from Wagner & Hand's reliance on 16th-century Italian rapier and dagger sources for their footwork.

• long: Fencing as an exercise based on speed and skill began when the longer, lighter rapier was developed in Italy during the 16th century.

Modifies a noun

• wit: This was, once again, treated like rapier wit.

• thrust: Then Symonds, rapier thrusts it through the covers for four.

• point: Lecturer makes rapier points about constitutional discrepancies, Solid wants to bludgeon us with street morality; some points I even agree with.

• combat: Contrary to popular belief, rapier combat was not a gentleman's affair.