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Fencing vs Foinery - What's the difference?

fencing | foinery |

As nouns the difference between fencing and foinery

is that fencing is the art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century european dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing) while foinery is (obsolete) thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.

As a verb fencing

is .

fencing

English

(wikipedia fencing)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
  • * 1973 , Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (page 253)
    • The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
    • Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

    Derived terms

    * geofencing

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    foinery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
    • (Marston)
    (Webster 1913)