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Fencing - What does it mean?

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fencing

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • 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)
  • * 1973 , Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (page 253)
  • The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
  • Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

    Derived terms

    * geofencing

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Not English

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