intransitive. To contend or fight using weapons; to engage in martial games; spec. to joust; to fence. to play loose (Fencing): to attack an…

To fence; to make flourishes with a weapon.

Phrases (sense 1): to play at bucklers, at sword and buckler: to fence; see also sword, n. to take up the bucklers: to enter the lists, present…

To make a noise as of swords clashing or of a sword beating on a shield (cf. swashbuckler, n.); to fence with swords; to bluster with or as with…

intransitive. To use the sword scientifically either for offence or defence.

transferred. See quots. Obsolete.

Fencing. (See quots. and cf. whirl, v. 3.)