Fencing
['fensɪŋ] or ['fɛnsɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) 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).
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Definition
(imp. & p. p. Fenced ) /); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence
(n.) The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.
(v. i.) Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
(v. i.) The materials used for building fences.
(v. i.) The act of building a fence.
(v. i.) The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Manual defence (with small swords or foils).
Editor: Quentin
Examples
- Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I am tired of this fencing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- After a moment's consideration, I suggested that perhaps fencing had been his accomplishment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He provided foils for us, and Steerforth gave me lessons in fencing--gloves, and I began, of the same master, to improve in boxing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You can teach me, and then when we play _Hamlet_, you can be Laertes, and we'll make a fine thing of the fencing scene. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I contrived to refer to him indirectly, and after a little fencing on either side she at last mentioned that he had gone out. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is not inapplicable to my uncle and his fencing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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