foinery
English
Etymology
foin + -ery
Noun
foinery (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Marston to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for foinery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)