foint (foin)

[Early mod. E. also foyne; > F. dial. fouiner, catch fish with a spear), prob. ( L. fuscina, a three pronged spear, a trident (Littré); hardly He hewd and lasht, and found , and thondred blowes. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 9. Than they a embled togyder in al partes, and began to foyne with speares and stryke with axes and swordes. Berners, tr. of Froi art. Rogero never foynd , and seldom strake But flatling. Sir J. Haring ton , tr. of Ariosto, xl. 78. II. trans. To thrust through with a weapon; pierce; stab. He egerlyche to Charlis ran And hente hym by the nekke than, And foynde hym with that knyf. Sir Ferumbras , 1. 5640.