(apparently) An inside guard.

Probably: a position protecting one's right-hand side.

Fencing. A defensive posture or movement; a mode of parrying. Cf. guard, n. 3.

Swordsmanship, Boxing, etc. A posture of defence; hence, the weapons or arms in such a posture. at open guard: in a position which leaves the…

A type of comb used for loosening or freeing yarn (see quots. 1850 2006). Cf. preemer, n.

a guard in which the sword is advanced well to the front of the fencer.

A parry which closes the inside high line (i.e. the top quarter of the torso opposite the sword arm), deflecting the opponent's blade; a thrust…

One of the positions in fencing; the third of the eight parries in sword-play, or the corresponding thrust: see quots. Also figurative (usually in…

see sense 6.

= tierce guard n.

Fencing. (See quot. 1863.)

A position in fencing; one of the eight parries and two usual guards of the small-sword. See quot. 1861.

a guard in fencing, esp. sabre-play: see quots.; also known as ‘high seconde’.

Fencing. The fifth of eight recognized parrying positions: (in foil and épée fencing) a low-line guard in which the blade is held in pronation and…

The second of the eight parries recognized in sword-play.

= seconde, n.

Fencing. The first of eight recognized parrying positions, used to protect the upper inside of the body, with the sword-hand at head-height in…

= seconde, n. 2.

Fencing. In full †octave parade. The last of eight guard positions in épée and foil, used to protect the lower outside of the body nearest to the…

Fencing. A position of the sword hand in which the fingernails are turned upwards.

Fencing. The seventh guard position, used by a right-handed fencer to protect the lower left quarter of the body, with the weapon held on the left…

A particular position in fencing.

Fencing. = sixte, n.

corps à corps/kɔr a kɔr/, body to body; in immediate contact; spec. in Fencing (see quot. 1910). Also transferred and figurative.