| 单词 | to foin at or with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto foin at (a person) or with (a weapon) 1. intransitive. To make a thrust with a pointed weapon, or with the point of a weapon; to lunge, push. Often to foin at (a person) or with (a weapon). archaic. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > strike with sharp weapon [verb (intransitive)] > strike with pointed weapon beakc1300 pushc1390 foin?a1400 stab1487 stogc1590 voine1596 thrust1598 chib1962 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1494 They..ffoynes faste att þe fore breste with flawmande swerdez. a1440 Sir Degrev. 274 With speres ferisly they foynede. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 307 Thai..Fwnȝeit [1489 Adv. Fwyngyt] and fawcht all sturdely. 1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 571 Ye foine only at your owne shadow, and hit nothing. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 123 That deadly manner of foyning with the rapier. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 32 They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their Corslets. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. vi. 159 The fellow foins well. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1861) 49 Foining with his point. < as lemmas |
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