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Klingon WOTD: way' (verb)

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• Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:00:04 -0500
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This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, January 10, 2006.

Category: Weapons/War

Klingon word:   way'
Part of Speech: verb 
Definition:     parry, deflect a lunge 
Source: KGT (230 KE, 239 EK) 
Swedish: parera, avleda en stöt,


Additional Notes:
KGT p. 59: There is an extensive vocabulary for the moves associated with [bat'leth] use.  To thrust or lunge toward one's opponent, for example, is jop.  To deflect a thrust--that is, to parry--is {way'}.
  
Antonyms: jop 

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