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fencing noun

  /ˈfɛnsɪŋ/
  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
 Fechten
  • Receiving and buying of stolen goods.
 Hehlerei
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
 Absperrgitter, Einzäunung, Zaunfeld

fence noun

  /fɛns/ , [fɛns] , [fɛnts]
  • (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
 Zaun, Fence, Fenz, Hag
  • (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
 Hehler, Hehlerin

fence verb

  /fɛns/ , [fɛns] , [fɛnts]
  • (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
 fechten
  • (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
 einzäunen, umzäunen, befrieden, einfrieden, einfriedigen, einhagen
  • (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
  • (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
 hehlen
fencing wire
Zaundraht
academic fencing
Mensur
fencing mask
Fechtmaske
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