fencing
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
Other meanings
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
“Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.”
The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
Synonyms
- fence
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "fensing".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fencing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.