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Fencing

verb
/ˈfɛnsɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 1.4

Definitions

1.verbTo enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
2.verbTo defend or guard.
3.verbTo engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
4.verbTo engage in the sport of fencing.
5.verbTo jump over a fence.
6.verbTo conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
7.nounThe art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing)
8.nounMaterial used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
"Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in."

Synonyms

pawnswordplayfencing materialswordsmanswordaimcloseoutbarrierclosingdemarcationclosetermination

Rhymes With

commencingdispensingcondensingflensingtensingexpensingcensingrensing
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