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sixte

American  
[sikst] / sɪkst /

noun

Fencing.
  1. the sixth of eight defensive positions.


sixte British  
/ sɪkst /

noun

  1. the sixth of eight basic positions from which a parry or attack can be made in fencing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of sixte

1880–85; < French < Latin sextus sixth

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Page 16.—"The sixte petition, to change the sauage name of Kicowtan," was granted.

From Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

Againe, in the sixte leafe and seconde page; They shewed unto us by signes that they had in the lande golde and silver and copper, whereof wee have broughte some home.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

In the sixte figure, is shewed howe an Armie is brought from a fower square facion, to the ordinarie forme, to faight a fielde: accordyng as afore is declared.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Dacres, Edward

The sixte parry is therefore followed, as a continuation of the movement, by the parry of quarte, or a counter parry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Whereunto are now newly added a sixte hundred of Epigrams by the sayde Iohn Heywood.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

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