| fencing | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. fence, fencing | a barrier that serves to enclose an area. |
| ~ backstop | (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field. |
| ~ barrier | a structure or object that impedes free movement. |
| ~ chainlink fence | a fence of steel wires woven into a diamond pattern. |
| ~ hedge, hedgerow | a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes. |
| ~ paling, picket fence | a fence made of upright pickets. |
| ~ rail fence | a fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle). |
| ~ stone wall | a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields. |
| ~ wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden).; "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited" |
| ~ weir | a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish. |
| ~ fence line | a boundary line created by a fence. |
| n. (substance) | 2. fencing, fencing material | material for building fences. |
| ~ building material | material used for constructing buildings. |
| n. (act) | 3. fencing | the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules). |
| ~ swordplay, play | the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully. |
| ~ fighting, combat, fight, scrap | the act of fighting; any contest or struggle.; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" |
| ~ passado, straight thrust, lunge | (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward. |
| ~ parry | (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword. |
| ~ remise | (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte). |
| ~ riposte | (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge. |
| ~ epee | a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade. |
| ~ foil | a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button. |
| ~ piste | a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts. |
| ~ saber, sabre | a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle. |
| ~ riposte | make a return thrust.; "his opponent riposted" |
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