Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seventh position assumed by a swordsman after drawing his weapon from the scabbard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun fencing The seventh defensive position, with the
sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee level.
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Meanwhile, indie screenscraper-driven sites like iSEPTA and septime will likely remain useful for quite some time to come.
Finally... boutell 2009
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And my septime site, which includes buses, trains, trolleys and subways, is still the way to go if you want to quickly find the next departure of a particular route from a particular stop. septime, which looks awfully basic on conventional desktop computers and even iPhones, is built for simpler cell phone web browsers and works very well indeed on a Blackberry.
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In two minutes I had his whole budget of the art laid bare to me; he had but four parries -- quarte and tierce for the high lines, with septime and second for the low ones -- and had never seen a counter-parry or lunge in the whole course of his misspent life.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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French school, by which, at serious issues, the guarding of the line can be more quickly done: as, for instance, the 'parade de septime' supplanting the slower 'parade de prime;' the 'parade de quarte' having advantage over the 'parade de quince;' the 'parade de tierce' being readier and stronger than the 'parade de sixte;' the same said for the
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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