Word Finder - fence

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A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.

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Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

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Skill in oral debate.

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The art or practice of fencing.

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A guard or guide on machinery.

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A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

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A memory barrier.

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To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

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To defend or guard.

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To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

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To engage in the sport of fencing.

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To jump over a fence.

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To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

There was no riding the fence on this one.

Josh was in his field digging fence post holes when she passed.

The men finished the fence and the goats are running in the south hills.

Maybe that was why he wanted to check the fence line.

As soon as the mother entered the house, he pocketed the phone, scaled the fence at a low corner, crossed to the surprised boy in a few steps, and placed a rag over his face.

A solid fence prevented her from seeing the vehicle.

An old forest fence which had seen its best days was a great haul for me.

In the southernhemisphere the icepack forms a nearly continuous fence around the Antarctic continent.

It dead-ended at the cottage, surrounded by a stone fence line.

As she vaulted over the fence, the cause of Brutus's excitement became obvious.

Josh vaulted the fence and raced up the hill, only to stop in surprise as Alex emerged from the trees riding a horse colored enough like Ed to be his twin.

The buffalo stood at the fence, watching them – probably wondering why they couldn't go along.

I happened to tell her the other day that the vine on the fence was a "creeper."

Then she ran straight into the fence - like she didn't see it.

Obviously he had already been inside the fence when she found the hole.

Finally she spotted him, plastered against the fence, watching Alex.

In the cultivated upland valleys all over Arabia the Zizyphus j ujuba, called by some travellers lotus, grows to a large tree; its thorny branches are clipped yearly and used to fence the cornfields among which it grows.

The green lizard, the fence lizard and whip-tailed lizard (Cnemidophorus gularis; C. sexlineatus; C. tesselatus, &c.) are quite widely distributed.

No fence that is ever encountered stops such a large proportion of the field as water; even a clear 6 ft.

Horses jump them on and off, and in taking them at a moderate pace there is a chance of stopping on the top and choosing a better place to jump from, or, if needs be, of returning and taking the fence at another place.

I felt my way to the end of the garden, knowing that the mimosa tree was near the fence, at the turn of the path.

The sun, just bursting forth from behind a cloud that had concealed it, was shining, with rays still half broken by the clouds, over the roofs of the street opposite, on the dew- besprinkled dust of the road, on the walls of the houses, on the windows, the fence, and on Pierre's horses standing before the hut.

He stopped at the end of the corral and leaned on the fence, staring off toward the tree.

I want to check the fence line before I turn the buffalo into the north pasture.

As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert.

While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.

And suddenly remembering his intention he grew dizzy and felt so faint that he leaned against the fence to save himself from falling.

Through the window she saw Alex vault the fence and hit the ground running.

Twenty acres and they were always at the fence line, poking their heads through to eat the brush on the other side.

The longhorns had been grazing against the fence with the buffalo for the last two weeks, so they would be accustomed to each other.

While the men were working on the fence, a delivery truck brought the stanchion.

Second, I prefer not lifting the goats over the fence to get them into the barn, and third, if you'd let me finish …" "You can't just put up a fence, Carmen.

When we are walking past a fence formed by equally-spaced vertical rails or overlapping boards, we may often note that each footstep is followed by a musical ring.

The rider's body must be always clOse to the saddle in leaping, for if he were jerked up, the weight of say only a 10stone man coming down on the horse a couple of seconds after he has negotiated a large fence is sufficient to throw the animal down.

Through a gap in the broken wall he could see, beside the wooden fence, a row of thirty year-old birches with their lower branches lopped off, a field on which shocks of oats were standing, and some bushes near which rose the smoke of campfires-- the soldiers' kitchens.

As Pierre passed through the fence gate, he was enveloped by hot air and involuntarily stopped.

Alex had made arrangements in Houston to purchase a pair of Texas Longhorns, and he was scouting out some more fence line.

In the larger " towns " the officers elected at this meeting may consist of five, seven or nine selectmen, a clerk, a treasurer, three or more assessors, three or more overseers of the poor, one or more collectors of taxes, one or more auditors, one or more surveyors of highways, a road commissioner, a sewer commissioner, a board of health, one or more constables, two or more field drivers, two or more fence viewers, and a tree warden; but in the smaller " towns " the number of selectmen niay be limited to three, the selectmen may assess the taxes, be overseers of the poor, and act as a board of health, and the treasurer or constable may collect the taxes.

When he had reached the fence, still without finding those he sought, he stopped and looked about him.

Dismounting at a cottage on whose wattle fence hung a signboard, GENERAL STAFF, and throwing down his reins, he entered a dark passage.

The home is in town with neighbors close by but the high wooden fence in the back yard allows privacy sufficient to cover my night time visit.

I wonder if it would be wise to put a fence across down there.

Between this fence and the outer fencing are the huts of the inhabitants.

This distance was covered at the fullest extended speed of the horses, and reaching the infantry they swept over them "like hounds over a fence" - in the words of an eyewitness.

More men collected behind the wattle fence of the Eighth Company than anywhere else.

There must be a bad spot in the fence, and it couldn't be too far away from the house.

A weal dog astwide a fence! shouted Denisov after him (the most insulting expression a cavalryman can address to a mounted infantryman) and riding up to Rostov, he burst out laughing.

I looked round and saw Brother A. standing on the fence and pointing me to a broad avenue and garden, and in the garden was a large and beautiful building.

Her face struck Pierre and, hurrying along by the fence, he turned several times to look at her.

The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway.