Fencing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi The act of building a fence.

II. Fencing ·vi The materials used for building fences.

III. Fencing ·vi Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.

IV. Fencing (·Impf & ·p.p. Fenced (/); ·p.pr. & ·vb.n.) of Fence.

V. Fencing ·vi The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

VI. Fencing ·noun The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, ·esp. with the smallsword. ·see Fence, ·vi, 2.