foin

American  

[foin] / fɔɪn /

noun

1. a thrust with a weapon.

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verb (used without object)

1. to thrust with a weapon; lunge.

foin British  

/ fɔɪn /

noun

1. a thrust or lunge with a weapon

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verb

1. to thrust with a weapon

Etymology

Origin of foin

1325–75; Middle English (v.), apparently < Old French foine fish spear < Latin fuscina

Example Sentences

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foin

“Es there a chance, friend Schiem, that Oi moit buy a foin wee peg from yeh? Moi coosin and Oi messed our danner today.....”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

And here is a foin behind for a mad dog!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

"Aye, but she is, though, an' a foin lump iv a son ye have, haven't ye, Maureen."

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

It’s a foin plan, sor, and all made out of the darlin’s own head.”

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

Then the army of Irak dight itself for fight and advanced into the plain and place of cut and foin.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir