fencing
noun
the art, practice, or sport in which an épée, foil, or saber is used for defense and attack.
fencings
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pluralof fencing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
Ha! ha! my dearest," thought he, "I knew, notwithstanding all your beautiful startings and fencings, that matters would come to this.
From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?
From The White Desert by Anton Otto Fischer
Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
