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Flensing vs Fencing - What's the difference?

flensing | fencing |

As verbs the difference between flensing and fencing

is that flensing is while fencing 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).

flensing

English

Verb

(head)
  • * 1968, , Harpoon Gunner , Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 59,
    • "All he know about flensing knives was that they were used to strip blubber from whale carcasses."

    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)