caveating

noun

caveating

noun
1

Fencing, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Sports, War Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

  • Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it there could be scarcely any offensive part, or pursuit.a. 1820, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia:

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