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Fencing position
Answer for the clue "Fencing position ", 7 letters:
seconde
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n. (context fencing English) The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.
Usage examples of seconde.
The introductory to writte and pronounce frenche, compiled by Alexander Barcley, in which k is moche vsed, and many other thynges also by hym affirmed, contrary to my sayenges in this boke, and specially in my seconde, where I shall assaye to expresse the declinations and coniugatynges with the other congruites obserued in the frenche tonge, I suppose it sufficient to warne the lernar, that I haue red ouer that boke at length: and what myn opinion is therin, it shall well inough apere in my bokes selfe, though I make therof no ferther expresse mencion: saue that I haue sene an olde boke written in parchement, in maner in all thynkes like to his sayd Introductory: whiche, by coniecture, was not vnwritten this hundred yeres.
Il gagna, laissa sa mise et son gain sur le tapis, gagna une seconde fois, puis une troisieme.
Il reprit: --Mon pere en est a sa seconde attaque, et ma mere est tombee dans une faiblesse extreme.
Sandoz gezien en geen seconde geaarzeld toen hij de kans kreeg om hem uit La Perla weg te halen.