used to indicate repeated minor rule infractions or a major rule infraction by one of the fencers; results in a point being given to the other fencer.
Redoublement also Redouble: a new action that follows an attack that missed or was parried, involving an extra movement of the arm or blade; see also Reprise, Remise.
Referee
also director, and formerly president; the mediator of the fencing bout.
Remise
immediate replacement of an attack that missed or was parried, in the same line as the original, and without any new movement of arm or blade.
Renewal
any renewal of an attack that initially failed: i.e. redouble, remise, reprise, insistence, or continuation
Renewal
any renewal of an attack that initially failed: i.e. redouble, remise, reprise, insistence, or continuation.
Reprise
renewal of an attack that missed or was parried, after a return to en-garde; see also Redoublement.
Retreat
step back; opposite of advance.
Right-of-way
the conventions that govern which fencer is awarded the point when both have hit each other during the same passage of fencing.
Riposte
an offensive action made immediately after a parry of the opponent's attack.

a fencing weapon with a flat blade and knuckle guard, used with cutting actions as well as attacks with the point.
Sabreur
a sabre fencer.
Sabreuse
a bruise caused by a heavy-handed sabre fencer. (cf. Butcher.)
Salle
a fencing hall or club.
Salute
with the weapon, a customary acknowledgement of one's opponent and referee at the start and end of the bout.
Second Intention
a false action used to draw a response from the opponent, which will open the opportunity for the intended action that follows.
Seconde
a parry similar to octave but with the hand pronated. The hand is waist high, the blade angled down, and protecting the sword-arm side of the body.
Septime
a low-level parry, with the hand waist high and supinated, the blade angled down, the arm across the body and the blade protecting the non-sword arm side of the body.
Simple
an attack or riposte that involves no feints: one of direct lunge, cutover, disengage or counter-disengage.
Simultaneous
in foil and sabre, two offensive actions for which the right-of-way is too close to determine.
Steam
non-electric: term used to describe a weapon that is not wired for electical scoring or for a bout where hits are decided by a jury rather than electrical scoring equipment.
Sixte
a parry with the hand waist high and supinated, the blade angled up and on the sword arm side of the body. This is the basic on-garde position.
Stop Cut
a stop-hit with the edge in sabre, typically to the cuff.
Stop Hit
a counter-attack that attempts to hit in time against the opponent's offensive action.
Supinated
refers to the hand being held with the thumb on top.