AT A BLOW

Definition: AT A BLOW

AT A BLOW

1. Suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. ``They lose a province at a blow.'' --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: AT A BLOW

And of Caligula, that he openly declared, that he would be no longer a head to the people or senate, and that he had it in his thoughts to cut off the worthiest men of both ranks, and then retire to Alexandria: and he wisht that the people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them all at a blow, Such designs as these, when any king harbours in his thoughts, and seriously promotes, he immediately gives up all care and thought of the common-wealth; and consequently forfeits the power of governing his subjects, as a master does the dominion over his slaves whom he hath abandoned. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The malefactor was fixed in a chair upon a scaffold erected for the purpose, and his head cut off at a blow with a sword of about forty foot long.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Russian 

одним ударом (at one fling). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bloat, tabla.

-3 letters: alba, alow, alto, awol, baal, bawl, blat, blaw, blot, blow, boat, bola, bolt, bota, bowl, lota, tala, tola.

-4 letters: aal, aba, abo, ala, alb, alt, awa, awl, baa, bal, bat, boa, bot, bow, lab, lat, law, lob, lot, low, oat, owl, tab, tao, taw, tow, twa, two, wab, wat, wot.

-5 letters: aa.

+2 letters: walkabout, whaleboat.

+3 letters: walkabouts, whaleboats.

+4 letters: battlewagon.

+5 letters: battlewagons.