Meaning of FENCING
| Pronunciation: | | 'fensing
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- [n] the act or art of using a sword as in fencing
- [n] a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- [n] material for building fences
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| | Synonyms: | | fence, fencing material, swordplay |
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| | See Also: | | backstop, barrier, building material, chainlink fence, combat, fence line, fight, fighting, hedge, hedgerow, paling, picket fence, play, rail fence, stone wall, wall, weir | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fen"cing\, n.
1. The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword,
esp. with the smallsword. See {Fence}, v. i., 2.
2. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of
fencers. --Shak.
3. The materials used for building fences. [U.S.]
4. The act of building a fence.
5. The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or
protection; as, the fencing of a farm.
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| | Related Terms: | | bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri, swordplay, tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words |
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