Fencing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The art or sport of using a foil, épée, or saber in attack and defense.
  • n. Skillful repartee, especially as a defense against having to give direct answers.
  • n. Material, such as wire, stakes, and rails, used in building fences.
  • n. A barrier or enclosure of fences.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of fence.
  • n. The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
  • n. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See fence, v. i., 2.
  • n. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
  • n. The materials used for building fences.
  • n. The act of building a fence.
  • n. The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The art of using a sword or foil in attack and defense, or practice for improvement or the exhibition of skill in that art.
  • n. That which fences; an inclosure or fence; the fences collectively.
  • n. Specifically, a protection put round a dangerous piece of machinery; brattishing.
  • n. Material used in making fences.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. material for building fences
  • n. a barrier that serves to enclose an area
  • n. the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    building material    fight    play    combat    scrap    fighting    swordplay   
    Cross Reference
    Wikipedia article on fencing   
    Variant
    fence   
    Verb Stem
    fence   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    commencing    condensing    dispensing    expensing    lensing    sensing   
     
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