Fence vs. Hoarding: What's the Difference?

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

A temporary wooden fence around a building or structure under construction or repair.

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.

Often hoardings An overhanging wooden structure temporarily mounted atop the walls of a fortification to aid in repelling attackers. Also called brattice.

One who receives and sells stolen goods.

Chiefly British A billboard.

A place where stolen goods are received and sold.

(UK) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.

(Archaic) A means of defense; a protection.

A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.

To surround or enclose with a fence or other barrier.

A billboard.

To separate or keep out by means of a fence or other barrier

The practice by of accumulating goods.

To sell (stolen goods) to a fence.

A good which is hoarded.

To ward off; keep away.

(psychology) An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.

To defend.

Present participle of hoard

To practice the art or sport of fencing.

A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.

To avoid giving direct answers; hedge.

A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.

To act as a conduit for stolen goods.

Large outdoor signboard

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

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

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

Skill in oral debate.

The art or practice of fencing.

A guard or guide on machinery.

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

A memory barrier.

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

(transitive) To defend or guard.

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

To engage in the sport of fencing.

To jump over a fence.

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

That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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.

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

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.

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

To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.

To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.

To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.

Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.

A barrier that serves to enclose an area

A dealer in stolen property

Enclose with a fence;

Receive stolen goods

Fight with fencing swords

Surround with a wall in order to fortify

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