a. [f. FIST sb.1 -Y1.] Of or pertaining to fists, or their use in boxing.

1

1681.  S. Colvil, Whiggs Supplic., 25.

        Which raised once a Fisty strife
Between a Preacher and his Wife.

2

1821.  Byron, Juan, XI. lv.

        In twice five years the ‘greatest living poet,’
  Like to the champion in the fisty ring,
Is call’d on to support his claim, or show it,
  Although ’tis an imaginary thing.

3

1840.  Thackeray, Paris Sk. Bk. (1867), 409. To the edification of the public, he engages in a fisty combat with a notorious boxer.

4