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 crisis in foreign trade was answered, and partly parried, with commercial innovations.
The criteria included basics categorized by stances, blocks, parries, punches, strikes, finger techniques, kicks, and foot maneuvers.
In another variation which is also found in chin na, the initial attack is parried and then the defender applies a lock on the attacker.
Blocking is dispensed with, and parries or simple strikes substituted.
Compound attacks are usually used to draw multiple reactions from an opponent, or against an opponent who uses complex parries.
There are eight basic parries, and many derivatives of these eight.
In the second stage of training, a series of blocking and parrying techniques is taught.
Clay in some miraculous way parried the thrust and grappled with his opponent.
