What does "fencing" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.The materials used for building fences. [U.S.]
  2. 3.The act of building a fence.
  3. 4.To aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

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