The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 324
rce (see Fig. 11); thatfrom tierce to carte is performed inlike manner. Appels, Beats, and Glizades.These are movements intended toconfuse an adversary. An appel isperformed by beating on the floorwith the right foot; a beat, or beaton the blade, is executed by sharplystriking the adversarys foil;… … Cut over Point. a form of courtesy (see Fig. 12).These movements are also useful asexercises for the learner. The firstthree positions having been taken asalready described, the fencers takeguard in tierce, each with his foil outof the line of his opponents body,and then each beats twice with…
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