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fencing 音标拼音: [f'ɛnsɪŋ] n. 围墙,剑术 围墙,剑术 fencing n 1: a barrier that serves to enclose an area [ synonym: { fence}, { fencing}] 2: material for building fences [ synonym: { 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) Fence \ Fence\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Fenced} ( f[ e^] nst); p. pr. & vb. n. { Fencing} ( f[ e^] n" s[ i^] ng).] 1. To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard. [ 1913 Webster] To fence my ear against thy sorceries. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure. [ 1913 Webster] O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth, And fence not Athens. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The materials used for building fences. [ U. S.] [ 1913 Webster] 4. The act of building a fence. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm. [ 1913 Webster] 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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