0 to defend yourself from a weapon or an attack by pushing the weapon away or by putting something between your body and the weapon
1 the act of blocking an attack by pushing a weapon away or putting something between your body and a weapon:
The second attack forced the goalkeeper into an impressive parry.
These parries require a much more precise knowledge of your sword.
The bitter parry and thrust of campaigning has carried the conflict to new levels of debate.
Whether fighting one-to-one or in pitched battles, the players struck real blows that rang true, which in turn had to be skilfully and accurately parried.
On the face of it, then, the threat of occasionalism can be parried.
He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot.
Changing the system was an elaborate process of thrust and parry and counterthrust by government reformers and entrenched supporters of the old regime.
Without this revival before 1914 it is difficult to see how the parry could have survived the ten turbulent years that followed.
