Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To thrust with a pointed weapon.
- noun A thrust with a pointed weapon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrust with a weapon; push, as in fencing; lot drive.
- To thrust through with a weapon; pierce; stab.
- noun A thrust; a push.
- noun A name of the beech-marten, Mustela foina.
- noun The dressed fur of the same animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To prick; to st?ng.
- intransitive verb obsolete To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.
- noun obsolete A pass in fencing; a lunge.
- noun (Zoöl.) The beech marten (
Mustela foina ). Seemarten . - noun obsolete A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
thrust with a sword; tostab at.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Turns out the golden beast was no other than a giant, rounded, botte de foin.
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Talk about a couple of needles in a meule de foin!
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As a fodder crop, sainfoin was so nourishing to cattle it was called "holy hay" – "sain" meaning sound or healthy and "foin" meaning hay.
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Turns out the golden beast was no other than a giant, rounded, botte de foin.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Talk about a couple of needles in a meule de foin!
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I bet somewhere Yensid is rolling in his cryo chamber foin
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Turns out the golden beast was no other than a giant, rounded, botte de foin.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word foin
As in "fencing and foining".
November 13, 2010