Definitions for fencing

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fencing fenc·ing

Spelling: [fen-sing]

IPA: /ˈfɛn sɪŋ/

Fencing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in fencing (cefginn).

Definitions for fencing

noun

1. the art, practice, or sport in which an épée, foil, or saber is used for defense and attack.
2. a parrying of arguments; avoidance of direct answers:
3. an enclosure or railing.
4. fences collectively.
5. material for fences.
6. 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.
7. Informal. a person who receives and disposes of stolen goods.
8. the place of business of such a person.
9. the act, practice, art, or sport of fencing.
10. skill in argument, repartee, etc.
11. Machinery. a guard or guide, as for regulating the movements of a tool or work.
12. Carpentry. a slotted guide used especially with a framing square to lay out cuts on rafters and staircase strings.
13. 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 fencing

1425-75; late Middle English fensing safeguarding, maintenance. See fence, -ing¹

Examples for fencing

It wiped out the entirety of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team.

The cow was bought, the horse, the chickens, the wire for fencing.

The process of installing the fencing began a few weeks ago, and is now about halfway through.

That virtue applied to fencing should all but revolutionize the art.

He now took lessons on the piano, and in geography, fencing, and dancing.

However, its only teams to win gold were in gymnastics and fencing, both intensely solo sports.

He had gone on to run track at Watchung High School in Warren, N.J., and to become ranked 21st nationally in fencing.

Where resources have been invested in fencing and manpower, the number of illegal border crossings drops dramatically.

He was no match for Csar in worldly logic, or at fencing with texts of Scripture.

"As you say, the time for fencing is over," pursued Kingozi.