fence
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Is fence a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.Examples: "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."; "The Finn was a fence, a trafficker in stolen goods, primarily in software. In the course of this business, he sometimes came into contact with other fences, some of whom dealt in the more traditional articles of the trade."Synonyms: fencercountableinformaluncountable
2. (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.broadlycountableuncountable
3. (obsolete, uncountable) The art or practice of fencing.Examples: "I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence"obsoleteuncountable
4. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.Examples: "I was in your arms Thinking I belonged there I figured it made sense Building me a fence"countablefigurativelyuncountable
5. (programming) A memory barrier.countableuncountable
6. (cricket) The boundary.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.Examples: "[…] pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc’d about with olive trees?"; "[…] O thou wall, That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth, And fence not Athens."; "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."transitive
2. (transitive) To defend or guard.Examples: "Cosin, our hands I hope shall fence our heads, And strike off his that makes you threaten vs."; "[…] I have learn’t To fence my ear against thy sorceries."transitive
3. (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.Examples: "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."Synonyms: pawntransitive
4. (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.Examples: "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."intransitive
5. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.intransitive
6. (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.Examples: "A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary