sixte

American  

[sikst] / sɪkst /

noun

Fencing.

1. the sixth of eight defensive positions.

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sixte British  

/ sɪkst /

noun

1. the sixth of eight basic positions from which a parry or attack can be made in fencing

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Etymology

Origin of sixte

1880–85; < French < Latin sextus sixth

Example Sentences

For a moment his point seemed to La Tour d'Azyr to be everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in sixte, Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease to lunge in tierce.

From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael

Page 929 SIX VI the sixte sixtely sixt, sixte, sixtement, of sixe, sixe cornarde sextil, sextangle, sisi�me, sexagesime.

From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles

But even as I was making up my mind to this—we were engaged in sixte at the time—I saw a sudden chance.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

Whereunto are now newly added a sixte hundred of Epigrams by the sayde Iohn Heywood.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

Whiche scutes in lyke manner, in the tyme of kinge Henry the sixte were of the same valewe, as apperethe in Fortescues commentaries of the lawes of Englande.

From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Kingsley, G. H. (George Henry)