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The single guard assumed
primarilay to protect from lateral cuts or to chest, with
the arm across the body, closing the high inside line. |
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Quarta
guardia |
Agrippa's left side
guard. |
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Quarte |
The small sword, transitional
and modern fencers name for the guard which closes the high
inside line. |
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Quarte
outside |
Seventeenth and eighteenth
century name for sixte, as sixte was not common until the
late eighteenth century. |
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Quarte
over the arm |
Seventeenth century
term for a disengage from quarte into a thrust delivered
over the opponents arm. |
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Quillion |
A Renaissance term
for the one or both branches of the T shaped cross guard
on swords, which prevents the opposing blade from sliding
into the hand. |
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Quillion
bash |
Parry followed by throwing
the opponents blade off line with a strike from the quillions |
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Quillion
block |
Block of metal from
which the quillions etc. stem. |
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Quillion
dagger |
(Poniard) A dagger
with wide quillions, popular from the thirteenth through
to the eighteenth century. Often used in conjunction with
a sword. |
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Quinta |
The fifth guard position
in double fence, with the rapier out in front of the body
and covered by the dagger at the forte. |
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Quinte |
a/ The modern fencing
sabre parry that protects the head from a vertical cut.
b/ The fifth thrust, or parry of eight taught in the French
school. |