Third person singular present tense of foin; makes quick thrusts with a sword.
Regular conjugation of 'foin' in modern English for he/she/it forms, or plural uses. Maintains the archaic verb's present-tense patterns.
When you see 'he foins at his enemy' in Shakespeare, you're reading precise combat terminology that Renaissance audiences understood perfectly—they recognized the move as distinctly different from a slash or a parry.
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