Crossword-Solution: FOIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foin | n. | The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten. |
| Foin | n. | A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name. |
| Foin | v. i. | To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge. |
| Foin | v. t. | To prick; to st?ng. |
| Foin | n. | A pass in fencing; a lunge. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FOIN | anagram | FINO, IFNO, INFO, NOIF, OFIN |
We have 8 clues for the answer “FOIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| cut and thrust | 1 answer |
| thrust or lunge with a weapon | 1 answer |
| Fend (off) | 11 answers |
| lunge | 31 answers |
| avert | 43 answers |
| fight back | 49 answers |
| Thrust | 50 answers |
| Turn | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with FOIN (5)
Then the horn blew up and he spurred on, and his foeman met him fairly in the midmost of the lists: yet he laid his spear but ill, and as one who would thrust and foin with it rather than letting it drive all it might, so that Ralph turned the point with his shield that it glanced off, but he himself smote the other full on the shoulder, and the shaft brake, but the point had pierced the man's armour, and the truncheon stuck in the wound: yet since the spear was broken he kept his saddle.
LXXIX No signal they, no trumpet they attend, To blow them to the lists, no master who Should teach them when to foin and when to fend, Or wake their sleeping wrath; their swords they drew: Then, one against the other, boldly wend, With lifted blades, the quick and dextrous two.
Thus willingly learned the youth of his master; being instructed first in the art and craft to manage and guide a horse; then to handle the shield and the spear, and both to cut and to foin with the sword; and last of all in the laws of honour and courtesy, whereby a man may rule his own spirit and so obtain grace of God, praise of princes, and favour of fair ladies.
And no man shall unto his fellow ride But one course, with a sharp y-grounden spear: *Foin if him list on foot, himself to wear.
The armies of Irak and Syria heard the clamour of rejoicing among the Greeks; so they mounted to the last man, and King Zibl Khan also took horse saying to himself, "Would I knew what can be the cause of this clamour and rejoicing in the army of the Franks and the Greeks!" Then the army of Irak dight itself for fight and advanced into the plain and place of cut and foin.