A blow, a thrust. Obsolete.

Fencing. Apparently: a blow over or from above the head. Obsolete.

Fencing. (See quot. 1891.) Cf. stop-thrust n. at compounds, and French coup d'arrêt.

†(a) = quarter-blow n.(obsolete); (b) the stroke with which a clock marks the quarter hours; also figurative.

Fencing. The act of beating down an opponent's weapon. Obsolete. rare.

Fencing. A pass, a thrust. Obsolete. rare.

In sword-fighting and fencing. The action or an act of stepping or moving to the side, typically in order to achieve a better offensive or defensive…

esp. A graceful brandishing of the weapon by way of salute or display at the beginning of a fencing match. †Hence figurative a prolusion…

some kind of stroke or blow (cf. sense 20, and quarter-stroke n.); also figurative.

A hit or thrust in fencing; a wound or blow; = venue, n. 2.

Fencing. A stamp of the leading foot during or just before an attack or feint, designed to unnerve one's opponent; an appel. Obsolete.

A thrust or hit in fencing; a stroke or wound with a weapon. Obsolete. Cf. veny, n.2 1.

Fencing and Sword exercise. A slashing blow or stroke given with the edge of the weapon (distinguished from a thrust given with the point).

Fencing. The interval of time required by an opponent to initiate and perform a particular action, esp. regarded as an opportunity to make an…

A movement in fencing.

= feint, n. 1a.

A pass or thrust in fencing (see above).

A cut from right to left.

A thrust made with the point of the sword and typically delivered from the executant's left side with the palm up. Cf. punta dritta, n.

Fencing. A thrust made while withdrawing the foot. Obsolete. rare.

‘A vertical downward cut in rapier fence, which is delivered at the head with the part of the weapon close to the point’ (Hutton, Fixed Bayonets…

In sword-fighting: a sideways step or movement. Cf. traverse, n. 14a. Obsolete. rare.

= imbroccata, n.

Fencing. A forward thrust with the foil, the rear foot being advanced at the same time.

Fencing. A pass or thrust made at a wrong or inopportune moment; contretemps, n. 1. Also figurative.

Thrusting with the foil, fencing with the point.

? A kind of stroke in fencing: a counter-check direct.

A blow or cut directed upwards.

A thrust with the point of the sword. See also punta dritta, n., punta riversa, n.

Fencing. A thrust with a pointed weapon.

A pass or thrust in fencing.

Fencing. A lunge or thrust made with a sword or rapier. Formerly also: †a round or bout of fencing (obsolete).

A thrust or lunge with a pointed weapon; = stock, n.3 2.

= stramazon, n.

Swordsmanship and Fencing. A thrust of the sword aimed at making a fatal or decisive hit. Also figurative and in figurative contexts: something…

= lunge, n.2

The action of ‘falsifying’ a blow; a feint.

Fencing. = feint, n. Obsolete.

In fencing or sword-fighting: the action of stepping or moving to the side. Cf. traverse, v. 14. Obsolete.

In Fencing. = canvasado, n. 3. Obsolete.

An act of warding off a blow or weapon; = parry, n. 2. Also figurative.

A thrust in the flank or side.

Chiefly Swordsmanship and Fencing. An act of warding off or turning aside a blow or weapon, esp. with a countermove. Also figurative. Cf. parade, n.2

A forward stroke (in bell-ringing and in sword-play).

A thrust made with a sword (esp. in Fencing); = lunge, n.2 1a. Obsolete.

Fencing. A pass or thrust which is made at a wrong or inopportune moment. Obsolete.

Fencing. A name applied to all circular parries, i.e. parries in which, while the hand retains the same position, the point is made to describe a…

A feigned or false attack. Also in phrases in feint, to make a feint. Fencing and Boxing. A blow, cut, or thrust aimed at a part other than that…

Fencing. The action of thrusting or lungeing. Obsolete. rare.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(b) + counter, n.5)

transitive. ? To engage (the adversary, his weapon); to meet point to point. Hence quasi-n., the action of engaging.

A term in fencing: see quot. 1688. Obsolete. rare.

Fencing. A sudden dexterous movement to avoid a thrust.

The action of overlap, v.1; partial overlying or coincidence; an instance of this.

= riposte, n.

a feint in fencing.

An act which disarms or aims to disarm an opponent; esp. (Fencing) an act which forces a weapon from an opponent's hand.

Fencing.

Fencing. = passado, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Fencing. A quick thrust given after parrying a lunge; a return thrust. Cf. counter-riposte, n.

A blow, stroke; also figurative; in Fencing, see quot. 1711. Obsolete.

Fencing. A backward step or movement; the action of moving backwards.

A thrust with a sword (spec. in Fencing) or other weapon.

Fencing. A particular blow struck upon the adversary's sword or foil.

The act of disengaging or reversing the relative position of the blades, so as to free one's own for a thrust. So counter-disengage.

Fencing. (See disengage, v. 4.)

Fencing. The act of applying pressure on an opponent's blade without changing the direction of the initial contact, usually in order to defend…

a combination of parry and riposte, made to counter an attack in such a way as to prevent its completion, thereby gaining a beat of time.

Fencing. The action of launching a time attack against an opponent. Cf. time, n. 28, time, v. 8. Now rare.

Fencing. A thrust in which the blade slides along the adversary's blade.

The action of shift, v. in various senses. Boxing and Fencing. (See quots.)

Fencing. A move beginning with a feint attack on one side to elicit a defensive action which is then evaded by an attack on the other side.

a move consisting of two feint attacks to elicit defensive actions, the second of which is evaded by an attack on the other side of the opponent's…

Fencing. A formal greeting of swordsmen when about to engage, consisting of a conventional series of guards, appels, thrusts, parries, parades, etc.

A slashing cut in fencing.

A renewed attack made while still on the lunge, without returning to guard; the action of making such an attack. Cf. reprise, n. 7d.

In Sword-exercise: (the verb in the imperative used substantively: see engage, v. 17).

The action of engage, v., in various senses. Also attributive, as in engaging guard (Military).

Fencing. = riposte, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

The action of lunge, v.1

A circular swing of a sword or sabre. Also (Fencing) (see quot. 1988).

Fencing. An immediate renewal of an unsuccessful attack. Cf. remise, n.4

a thrust delivered at the opponent at the moment when he advances for attack (cf. 20).

Swordsmanship. The action of crossing swords. See engage, v. 17.

Fencing. A movement of the sword equivalent to a disengage, but effected by drawing the sword along and over the point of the adversary's.

An act of scraping. Fencing. (See quots.)

an attack by means of which one may gain time on one's opponent, esp. one launched when he or she has only just begun to prepare an attack.

In sword-fighting and fencing. The action or an act of pressing the blade of one's sword against that of an opponent and maintaining pressure so…

Fencing. An offensive disengage executed over the opponent's blade.

the return stroke after parrying with opposition: see quot. 1889 and riposte, n. 1.

Fencing. (See quot. 1961.)

Fencing. An immediate renewal of an unsuccessful attack, often while still on the lunge. Cf. reprise, n. 7d remise, n.4

A thrust made with the point of the sword and typically delivered from the executant's right side with the palm down. Cf. punta riversa, n.