straight thrust

1. 1.

   (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward

   Synonymslungepassado

   Broaderstab

   Partsremise

   fencing

Questions about straight thrust

What does straight thrust mean?

straight thrust means "(fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward".

What is another word for straight thrust?

Close synonyms include lunge, passado. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straight thrust a common word?

straight thrust is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.