fencing
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century…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).
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)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).
Fechten
фехтова́ниеfextovánije
фехтува́нняfextuvánnja
(countable, uncountable)Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.
Zaunfeld, Absperrgitter, Einzäunung
огражде́ниеograždénije, загражде́ниеzagraždénije, огра́даográda
material for building fences
(countable, uncountable)The act of erecting fences, or enclosing within fences.
(countable, slang, uncountable)The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
Hehlerei
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English fensing, equivalent to fence + -ing.From Middle English fensing, equivalent to fence + -ing.
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Forms
plural: fencingsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a barrier that serves to enclose an area:fence
- material for building fences:fencing material
Word family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
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