sixte

American  

[sikst] / sɪkst /

noun

Fencing.

1. the sixth of eight defensive positions.

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sixte British  

/ sɪkst /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of sixte

1880–85; < French < Latin sextus sixth

Example Sentences

But even as I was making up my mind to this—we were engaged in sixte at the time—I saw a sudden chance.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

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

For a moment his point seemed to La Tour d'Azyr to be everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in sixte, Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease to lunge in tierce.

From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael

“Contraction, Parries of,” those which do not parry in the simplest manner, but drag the adverse blade into another line, e.g. to parry a thrust in high sixte by counter of quarte.

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

The sixte is to do them also with al mekenesse bothe in spyryte and gesture.

From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Betson, Thomas