'Fencing' definitions:
Definition of 'fencing'
From: WordNet
noun
A barrier that serves to enclose an area [syn: fence, fencing]
noun
Material for building fences [syn: fencing material, fencing]
noun
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)
Definition of 'Fencing'
From: GCIDE
- Fencing \Fen"cing\, n.
- 1. The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The materials used for building fences. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of building a fence. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fencing'
From: GCIDE
- Fence \Fence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fenced (f[e^]nst); p. pr. & vb. n. Fencing (f[e^]n"s[i^]ng).]
- 1. To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard. [1913 Webster]
- To fence my ear against thy sorceries. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure. [1913 Webster]
- O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth, And fence not Athens. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To fence the tables (Scot. Church), to make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table. --McCheyne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fencing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Fencing'
- Fence,
- Fenced,
- Fenceful,
- To be on the fence,
- fence in,
- on the fence,
- Fence month,
- Fence roof,
- Fence time,
- Flood fence,
- Picket fence,
- Rail fence,
- Ring fence,
- Snake fence,
- Sunk fence,
- To fence the tables,
- Virginia fence,
- Wire fence,
- Worm fence,
- chainlink fence,
- fence line,
- fence lizard,
- fence mending,
- fence rail,
- fenced cities,
- fencing mask,
- fencing material,
- fencing stick,
- fencing sword,
- Flower-fence,
- Virginia rail fence,
- confined fenced in penned,
- eastern fence lizard,
- fence-sitter,
- peacock flower fence,
- western fence lizard,
- snake-rail fence