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Fence and Defence Definitions

Fence

A structure serving as an enclosure, a barrier, or a boundary, usually made of posts or stakes joined together by boards, wire, or rails.

Defence

Variant of defense.

Fence

An adjustable guide with a flat edge used on a table saw and positioned parallel to the plane of the cutting attachment in order to keep the board properly positioned for the cut to be made at the correct distance from the board's edge.

Defence

The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.

Fence

One who receives and sells stolen goods.

Defence

Something used to oppose attacks.
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Fence

A place where stolen goods are received and sold.

Defence

An argument in support or justification of something.

Fence

(Archaic) A means of defense; a protection.

Defence

A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.

Fence

To surround or enclose with a fence or other barrier.

Defence

The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
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Fence

To separate or keep out by means of a fence or other barrier
Fenced off one field from another.
Fenced out the deer from the garden.

Defence

Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
Department of Defence

Fence

To sell (stolen goods) to a fence.

Defence

(obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

Fence

To ward off; keep away.

Defence

To furnish with defences; to fortify.
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Fence

To defend.

Defence

See Defense.

Fence

To practice the art or sport of fencing.

Defence

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

Fence

To avoid giving direct answers; hedge.

Defence

(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring;
His teams are always good on defense

Fence

To act as a conduit for stolen goods.

Defence

The defendant and his legal advisors collectively;
The defense called for a mistrial

Fence

A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.

Defence

An organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack;
He joined the defense against invasion

Fence

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

Defence

The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions;
His refutation of the charges was short and persuasive
In defense he said the other man started it

Fence

(by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.

Defence

The justification for some act or belief;
He offered a persuasive defense of the theory

Fence

Skill in oral debate.

Defence

A structure used for defense;
The artillery battered down the defenses

Fence

The art or practice of fencing.

Defence

A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him;
He gave evidence for the defense

Fence

A guard or guide on machinery.

Defence

Military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies;
They died in the defense of Stalingrad
They were developed for the defense program

Fence

(figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

Defence

Protection from harm;
Sanitation is the best defense against disease

Fence

A memory barrier.

Fence

(transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

Fence

(transitive) To defend or guard.

Fence

(transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

Fence

To engage in the sport of fencing.

Fence

To jump over a fence.

Fence

(intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

Fence

That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
Let us be backed with God and with the seas,Which he hath given for fence impregnable.
A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.

Fence

An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.

Fence

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

Fence

Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.
Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric,That hath so well been taught her dazzing fence.
Of dauntless courage and consummate skill in fence.

Fence

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.

Fence

To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
To fence my ear against thy sorceries.

Fence

To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth,And fence not Athens.
A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees.

Fence

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
Vice is the more stubborn as well as the more dangerous evil, and therefore, in the first place, to be fenced against.

Fence

To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
He will fence with his own shadow.

Fence

Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.
They fence and push, and, pushing, loudly roar;Their dewlaps and their sides are bat ed in gore.
As when a billow, blown against,Falls back, the voice with which I fencedA little ceased, but recommenced.

Fence

A barrier that serves to enclose an area

Fence

A dealer in stolen property

Fence

Enclose with a fence;
We fenced in our yard

Fence

Receive stolen goods

Fence

Fight with fencing swords

Fence

Surround with a wall in order to fortify

Fence

Have an argument about something

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