What does "fencing" mean?
Fencing: Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.The materials used for building fences. [U.S.]
- 3.The act of building a fence.
- 4.To aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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