fencing
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛnsɪŋ
Verb[edit]
fencing
Noun[edit]
fencing (countable and uncountable, plural fencings)
- 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)
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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.
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- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.
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sport
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material used to make fences
fences used as barriers or an enclosure
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