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fencing
/ ˈfɛnsɪŋ /
noun
- the practice, art, or sport of fighting with swords, esp the sport of using foils, épées, or sabres under a set of rules to score points
- wire, stakes, etc, used as fences
- fences collectively
- skilful or witty debate
- the avoidance of direct answers; evasiveness
- slang.the business of buying and selling stolen property
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For decades, this served as a respectable front for the biggest fencing operation in the history of the country.
The homestretch of the track had been blocked off with cattle fencing—the kind they use at rodeos that makes for easy climbing.
The process of installing the fencing began a few weeks ago, and is now about halfway through.
It wiped out the entirety of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team.
However, its only teams to win gold were in gymnastics and fencing, both intensely solo sports.
The white ranchmen in the valley were all fencing in their lands; no more free running of stock.
To supply the demand for galvanised signalling and fencing cords, the machines must turn out 15,000 yards of strand per day.
All her scheming and fencing would have availed her nothing if she were to break down at the critical moment.
During this year there were various fencing contests held at the Bull in Bishopsgate.
He raised his saber in salute—the only fencing-movement he'd become proficient in—and jumped into a crouch.
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