(n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Warren said a Russian Su-24 aircraft, or Fencer, made 12 passes at low altitude near the USS Donald Cook, a destroyer that has been in the Black Sea since April 10.
(2) The former fencer, unknown to most sports fans but an influential figure in German sport and business, takes over when the Olympic movement is at a crossroads.
(3) J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) If the worst they can say about you is you're an OPENLY GAY EX-OLYMPIC FENCER TOP JUDGE, you've basically won life.
(4) We present the case of a fencer who developed this injury.
(5) In fencers and left-handers shorter latencies were found for the large visual field condition, whereas right-handers showed an opposite trend.
(6) A case of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia in the hypothenar eminence of a 23-year-old female fencer is described.
(7) The reaction time in test 3 correlated significantly (p less than 0.01) with competition success within the group of world class fencers.
(9) The results showed that épée fencers have a high maximal aerobic power and high maximal isometric and dynamic strength.
(10) They want to be astronauts, you’ve got fencers at the Olympics and ice skaters going to the Winter Olympics , female air crew for Brunei airways – these are young people who are really battling the fact that they have aspirations that should be unfettered versus a reality that is trying to confine them to a particular box.” But, she acknowledges, not all young Muslims are Generation M. Inclusion does not depend on disposable income or level of education, but sharing the characteristics of faith and modernity.
(11) In a double blind test on 40 men and women high performance fencers the influence of a multivitamin-electrolyte-preparation on reaction time, hit-frequency and neuromuscular irritability was determined.
(12) The results give further evidence of special patterns of visual processing in athletes, like fencers, in agreement with the literature.
(13) The test subjects were ten world class epée fencers from the Swedish national team.
(14) Bach was already a promising fencer at the age of five when his parents forced him into the sport against his will (he preferred football).
(15) An increase of the mean circadian values of T concentration in venous blood was found in females fencers (n = 9).
(16) It accused him of cheating when he was a young fencer by using a wet glove to disable the scoring system, of paying inducements to sports stars when he was an Adidas executive and of being named in Stasi files over an influence-peddling scheme.
(17) The documentary featured allegations that he had cheated as a young fencer by using a wet glove to fool the electronic scoring system and claimed the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of which he is president, is anti-Israeli.
(18) The Mail Online went on to describe one of the judges, Sir Terence Etherton, as “an openly gay ex-Olympic fencer”.
(19) Visual evoked potentials were recorded from occipital and temporal leads in the two cerebral hemispheres of eight fencers and eight control subjects.
(20) Mogulof quotes one teammate as saying Mayer kept speaking of the oak tree presented to each gold medal winner, mourning the fact she couldn’t plant the tree in her homeland where it would bloom as an eternal reminder of the once golden fencer who had come back to win in the face of hate.
Swordsman
Definition:
(n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
(n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(2) James Debens emails: "Watching Spain v Chile reminded me of the Arab swordsman scene in Indiana Jones, with Chile as our bestubbled hero killing tiki-taka."
(3) And he's a spy and a great swordsman, and you get the feeling that if you put him into solitary confinement he would come out very much as he went in.
(4) And yet it is to a Japanese assassin, a stone-cold swordsman, that his two most recent collaborators compare him.