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well-fenced

  • a word derived from fence.
    fence
    noun
    a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of vertical posts connected with horizontal sections of sturdy material or materials, as wood, metal, vinyl, or wire, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.

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For the more perfect welfare state can flourish only in a well-fenced world that brakes the influx of competing people and products.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service and given the run of 150 acres of well-fenced Texas marsh.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hedge here, a path there, bordered with privet or rhododendron; a comfortable looking farmhouse, commodious barns and well-fenced pastures, where we passed a few men who touched their caps and stared after us.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs

That we make to thee with harps and pipes mingled together, and sing as we come to a stand at thy well-fenced altar.

From From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston

There is building beyond building, and the court of the house is cunningly wrought with a wall and battlements, and well-fenced are the folding doors; no man may hold it in disdain.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang