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Fencing vs Puncto - What's the difference?

fencing | puncto |

As nouns the difference between fencing and puncto

is that 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) while puncto is (obsolete) a particular point of form or ceremony.

As a verb fencing

is .

fencing

English

(wikipedia 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)

    puncto

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A particular point of form or ceremony.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (fencing) The point of the sword in fencing.
    • (Farrow)
    (Webster 1913) ----