Term: parry: (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword
Candidate hypernym: blocking: the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements → 1
Candidate hypernym: ordinance: a statute enacted by a city government → 0
Candidate hypernym: bird louse: wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds → 0
Candidate hypernym: nosewheel: a wheel located under the nose of an airplane that is part of the plane's landing gear → 0
Candidate hypernym: psephologist: a sociologist who studies election trends → 0
Candidate hypernym: unselfishness: the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others → 0
Candidate hypernym: apostle: (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel → 0
Candidate hypernym: sense: a general conscious awareness → 0
Candidate hypernym: basidium: a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes → 0
Candidate hypernym: protestation: a strong declaration of protest → 0
Candidate hypernym: hooke's law: (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced → 0