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fence noun

  /fɛns/ , [fɛns] , [fɛnts]
  • (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
 clôture, cloison
  • (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
 receleur, recéleur, fourgue, receleuse, recéleuse

fence verb

  /fɛns/ , [fɛns] , [fɛnts]
  • (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
 clôturer
  • (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.
 fourguer

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).
 escrime
  • Receiving and buying of stolen goods.
 recel
fence off
clôturer
electric fence
clôture électrique, électrificateur de clôture
snow fence
paravalanche
picket fence
palissade, clôture
sit on the fence
avoir le cul entre deux chaises
on the fence
avoir le cul entre deux chaises
geo-fence
géorepérage
stall fence
cloison de décrochage
sunken fence
saut-de-loup
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