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n.
A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
v. i.
Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.
a.
Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
n.
One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
adv. & prep.
Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
v. i.
To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
n.
A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
n.
A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
imp. & p. p. Fenced
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v. t.
To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
v. t.
To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
v.
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
n.
The longer wood for making or mending fences.
a.
Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.
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To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
v. t.
To strip of a fence; to remove a fence from.
n.
A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
v. i.
To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
n.
That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
v. i.
To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
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