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

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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

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

Misther Blake was dhrivin' to church, at about eleven o'clock o' a foin summer's mornin'.

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

But on the other side, above Athenry, 'tis there ye'll see the foin shootin'.

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

To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy II.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

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