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Definition of Fencing

Fencing

  1. of Fence
  2. The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.
  3. Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
  4. The materials used for building fences.
  5. The act of building a fence.
  6. The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

Fencing Quotations

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
Rick Perry

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
Patrick Stewart

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
Maureen O'Hara

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
James Earl Jones
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Fencing Translations

fencing in Italian is scherma
fencing in Norwegian is fekting
fencing in Spanish is esgrima

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