Meanings
nouncaveating (uncountable)
- uncountablefencingShifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it there could be scarcely any offensive part, or pursuit.
a. 1820, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
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