foinery noun1 •(no longer used) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa — 1599
