1. (imp. & p. p. Fenced (/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence.
2. (n.) The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the small sword. See Fence.
3. (v. i.) Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
4. (n.) The materials used for building fences.
5. (n.) The act of building a fence.
6. (n.) The aggregate of the fences put up for enclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.
Thesaurus Entries
bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, suppressio veri, swordplay, tergiversation, trichoschistism, weasel words
