FENCING - 10 definitions found
fencing n 1: a barrier that serves to enclose an area [syn: fence, fencing] 2: material for building fences [syn: fencing material, fencing] 3: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules) Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) fencing noun Date: 1578 1. the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épee, or saber 2. a. (1) fence 2a (2) the fences of a property or region b. material used for building fences Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary fencing 1. Fencing is a sport in which two competitors fight each other using very thin swords. The ends of the swords are covered and the competitors wear protective clothes, so that they do not hurt each other. N-UNCOUNT 2. Materials such as wood or wire that are used to make fences are called fencing. ...old wooden fencing. N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary fencing ˈfensɪŋ n. 1 a set or extent of fences. 2 material for making fences. 3 the art or sport of swordplay. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Fence \Fence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fencing.] 1. To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard. To fence my ear against thy sorceries. --Milton. 2. To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure. O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth, And fence not Athens. --Shak. A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees. --Shak. To fence the tables (Scot. Church), to make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table. --McCheyne. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Fencing \Fen"cing\, n. 1. The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2. 2. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. --Shak. 3. The materials used for building fences. [U.S.] 4. The act of building a fence. 5. The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms fencing n. Manual defence (with small swords or foils), art of self-defence, swordsmanship, fence. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 29 Moby Thesaurus words for "fencing": bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri, swordplay, tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words |
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