fencing

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnsɪŋ

Verb

fencing

1. Present participle of fence.

Noun

fencing (plural fencings)

1. 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)
2. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.

   Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

Translations

sport

Armenian: սուսերամարտ (hy) (suseramart) Catalan: esgrima (ca) Czech: šerm (cs) m. Danish: fægtning (da) c. Dutch: schermen (nl) Finnish: miekkailu (fi) French: escrime (fr) f. German: Fechten (de) n. Greenlandic: panaanneq (kl) Hebrew: סייף (he)

Hungarian: vívás (hu) Italian: scherma (it) f. Japanese: フェンシング (ja) Macedonian: мечувалство (mk) (mečuválstvo) n. Manx: cliwederaght (gv) f. Polish: szermierka (pl) Portuguese: esgrima (pt) f. Russian: фехтование (ru) (fextovánie) n. Spanish: esgrima (es) f. Swedish: fäktning (sv)

material used to make fences

Macedonian: тараба (mk) (táraba) f., тараби (mk) (tárabi) pl.

Portuguese: cerca (pt) f.

fences used as barriers or an enclosure

Dutch: hekwerk (nl) n. Macedonian: ограда (mk) (ógrada) f.

Swedish: inhägnad (sv)

See also

• Fencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia