simple past tense and past participle of parry

To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying. / (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.

plural of parry

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parry

present participle of parry

The act of one who parries.

A surname from Welsh. / A hamlet in Division No.2, Saskatchewan, Canada.

plural of parrying

An English surname from the Celtic Parisi tribe of Yorkshire, the name of uncertain origin. Koch proposes derivation from Proto-Celtic *kʷert (“make, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (compare Welsh peri).