1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BROTHER of the Blade [person]
a Sword-man or Soldier.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Brother of the Blade in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).