EGAVE

fencing

About 1.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
  2. noun Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
    Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.
  3. noun The act of erecting fences, or enclosing within fences.
  4. noun The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
  5. verb present participle and gerund of fence

Similar words

swordplay fencing material swordsman sword aim closeout barrier closing demarcation close

Often followed by

and of in with is master the to or

Word family

fencings

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