fencing

Meanings

1. 1
   verb To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
2. 2
   verb To defend or guard.
3. 3
   verb To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
4. 4
   verb To engage in the sport of fencing.
5. 5
   verb To jump over a fence.
6. 6
   verb To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
7. 7
   noun 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)
8. 8
   noun Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.