Fencing

  • 121fencing — 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 …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 122fencing — Synonyms and related words: bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic chopping, nit picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 123Fencing — n receiving of stolen goods …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 124fencing — Australian Slang n receiving of stolen goods …

    English dialects glossary

  • 125fencing — fenc|ing [ˈfensıŋ] n [U] ↑foil 1.) the sport of fighting with a long thin sword 2.) fences or the pieces of wood, metal etc used to make them …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 126fencing — fenc|ing [ fensıŋ ] noun uncount 1. ) the sport of fighting with a light thin sword 2. ) fences, or the materials such as wood and wire used for making them …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 127fencing — noun 1》 the sport of fighting with blunted swords according to a set of rules in order to score points. 2》 a series of fences.     ↘material for making fences …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 128fencing — n. Manual defence (with small swords or foils), art of self defence, swordsmanship, fence …

    New dictionary of synonyms