Definitions for fences

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fences fence

Spelling: [fens]

IPA: /fɛns/

Fences is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in fences (ceefns).

Definitions for fences

noun

1. a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
2. Informal. a person who receives and disposes of stolen goods.
3. the place of business of such a person.
4. the act, practice, art, or sport of fencing.
5. skill in argument, repartee, etc.
6. Machinery. a guard or guide, as for regulating the movements of a tool or work.
7. Carpentry. a slotted guide used especially with a framing square to lay out cuts on rafters and staircase strings.
8. Archaic. a means of defense; a bulwark.

Idioms

1. mend one's fences, to strengthen or reestablish one's position by conciliation or negotiation:
2. on the fence, uncommitted; neutral; undecided:

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose by some barrier, establishing exclusive right to possession:
2. to separate by or as by a fence or fences (often followed by in, off, out, etc.):
3. to defend; protect; guard:
4. to ward off; keep out.
5. Informal. to sell (stolen goods) to a fence.
6. Nautical. to reinforce (an opening in a sail or the like) by sewing on a grommet or other device.

verb (used without object)

1. to practice the art or sport of fencing.
2. to parry arguments; strive to avoid giving direct answers; hedge:
3. (of a horse) to leap over a fence.
4. Obsolete. to raise a defense.

Origin of fences

1300-50; Middle English fens, aphetic for defens defense

Examples for fences

Yates sprang to his feet with a laugh, and followed him to the fence.

"I got the gun, and the Maxim-silencer thing, off a fence in Boston," he explained.

They sat around on the fence, or on the logs dumped down by the wayside.

I have the unique advantage of seeing this from both sides of the fence.

But what about the screams, the salty puddles, and big empty packages of frozen fish lying on the ground outside the fence?

Ali Salameh and Abu Daud also arrived at the Olympic Village to observe the attack from outside the fence.

Yates sat on the top rail of the fence with the whittler, whose guest he had been.

He was, not even six hours after he scaled a fence and broke out.

For anyone who may be on the fence but willing to be convinced, this special is well worth their time.

Therefore, two men of strong beliefs were set on opposite sides of the fence.