About The Word Fencing
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Fencing
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What's The Definition Of Fencing?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Fencing: fence | fencing material | swordplay Related Terms | Find terms related to Fencing: 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 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 Fencing In Webster's Dictionary \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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