Fencing vs Defencing - What's the difference?
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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)
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
As verbs the difference between fencing and defencing
is that fencing is while defencing is .As a noun fencing
is 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).fencing
English
(wikipedia fencing)Verb
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- The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
- Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.