flèche

Meanings

Noun

• An arrow.
• Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
• A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
• An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
• A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.

Verb

• To attack using the flèche method.

Origin

• Borrowed from French flèche. fletch.