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fencing

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1. fencing - Noun

2. fencing - Verb

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/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence

The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.

Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.

The materials used for building fences.

The act of building a fence.

The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. Thorstein Veblen

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much. Bruce Dickinson

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution. Vivien Leigh

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. Wilkie Collins

He could leap the corral, If he rose To his full height; He could splinter the fencing light, With three blows Of his porcelain hoofs in flight - If he chose. He could shatter his prison wall, Could escape them all - If he rose, If he chose. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Don't make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing. Jewish Proverb

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