Fence

Noun

 * 1) A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
 * 2) * 1865, Horatio Alger, Paul Prescott's Charge - Chapter XVII,
 * There was a weak place in the fence separating the two inclosures
 * 1) A middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
 * 2) The place whence such a middleman operates.
 * 3) Skill in oral debate.
 * 4) The art or practice of fencing.
 * 5) * 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor,
 * I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence
 * 1) A guard or guide on machinery.

Synonyms

 * pawn
 * pawn shop

Derived terms

 * fencepost
 * fencing
 * good fences make good neighbors

Verb

 * 1)  To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
 * 2) * 1856, George A. Smith, The Saints Should Divest Themselves of Old Traditions,
 * Here are twenty acres of land, and it is all you can properly farm, unless you have more help than yourself. Now fence and cultivate it, and you can make an abundant living.
 * 1)  To defend or guard.
 * 2)  To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
 * 3)  To engage in (the sport) fencing.
 * 4) * 1921, Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche,
 * Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.
 * 1)   To jump over a fence.

Synonyms

 * pawn

Adjectives for Fence
woven-wire; straggling; distorted; elaborate; bushy; pitiless; verbal; locust; split-rail;  hurdle;   whitewashed;   spirituals weather-beaten.

Verbs for Fence
break through—; construct—; erect—; fortify with—; hurdle—; jump—; leap—; level —; provide—; repair—; skirt—; straddle —; surround with—; —bars; —defends; — deters; —encloses; —guards; —hinders; — limits; —partitions; —protects; —repels; — restricts; —screens; —shields; —wards off; —yields.

Thesaurus
abatis, about the bush, advanced work, arch dam, arm, armor, armor-plate, around the bush, avoid, backstop, baffle, balistraria, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed wire, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battle, battlement, bear-trap dam, beat about, beat around, beaver dam, beg the question, bicker, black-market, black-marketeer, bless, block, blockade, boggle, boom, bootleg, bound, boundary, box, brawl, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, broil, buffer, bulkhead, bulkhead in, bulwark, cage, casemate, castellate, cavil, center, champion, cheval-de-frise, choplogic, circumscribe, circumvallation, clash, cloak, close, cofferdam, collide, combat, come to blows, compass about, compromise, confine, contend, contest, contravallation, coop, copyright, corral, counterscarp, cover, crenellate, curtain, cushion, cut and thrust, dam, defend, defense, demibastion, dig in, dike, ditch, dodge, drawbridge, duck, duel, earthwork, embankment, embattle, encircle, enclose, enclosure, ensure, entanglement, entrench, equivocate, escarp, escarpment, evade, evade the issue, exchange blows, feint, fences, fend, fend off, feud, fieldwork, fight, fight a duel, foil, fortalice, fortification, fortify, garrison, gate, give and take, give satisfaction, glacis, golden mean, grapple, grapple with, gravity dam, groin, guarantee, guard, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, harbor, haven, hedge, hedgerow, hem, hem and haw, hoarding, hydraulic-fill dam, immure, impartial, indecisive, independent, insure, iron curtain, irresolute, jam, jetty, jostle, joust, keep, keep from harm, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, make safe, man, man the garrison, maneuver, mantelet, mean, medium, merlon, mew, middle course, middle ground, middle way, milldam, mine, mix it up, moat, moderantism, moderate position, moderateness, moderation, moderatism, mole, moonshine, mound, mystify, nestle, neutral, neutral ground, nitpick, obscure, on the fence, outwit, outwork, pale, paling, palisade, palter, parados, parapet, parry, patent, pen, pick nits, picket, police, portcullis, postern gate, prevaricate, protect, pull away, pull back, push, pussyfoot, put off, qualify, quarrel, quibble, rail, railing, rampart, rassle, ravelin, receiver, recoil, redan, redoubt, register, restrict, retaining wall, ride shotgun for, riot, roadblock, rock-fill dam, run a tilt, safeguard, sally port, scarp, sconce, scramble, screen, scuffle, seawall, secure, separate, sheer off, shelter, shield, shift, shift off, shilly-shally, shirk, shove, shrink, shroud, shuffle, shutter dam, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, skirmish, spar, split hairs, step aside, stockade, stone wall, stonewall, stop, strive, struggle, surround, swagman, swagsman, swerve, tenaille, tergiversate, third force, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, trellis, tussle, unbiased, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, underwrite, unprejudiced, vacillate, vacillating, vallation, vallum, via media, waffle, wage war, wall, war, ward off, weir, wicket dam, work, wrestle, zigzag fence

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ցանկապատ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  藩籬,  藩篱,  籬笆,  篱笆,  柵欄,  栅栏,  圍牆,  围墙
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: hek,
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 * Italian:, , , , , ,
 * Japanese:, ,  垣根,
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 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: cerca, cerramiento , barda ,  ,
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 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: orgazda
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 * Polish:
 * Russian: скупщик краденого, барыга
 * Spanish: perista,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: hälare


 * : gardh
 * : gard
 * : కంచె (kaMche), దడి (daDi)

Verb

 * Czech: oplotit
 * Finnish: rakentaa aita
 * French:
 * German: einzäunen
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 * Polish: ogradzać
 * Russian: огораживать/огородить (ogoráživat'/ogorodít')
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 * Romanian: scrima
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