fence
A fence is a usually wooden or metal structure that encloses a yard, pasture, or other area. Many people with back yard swimming pools put fences around them to make sure small children don’t fall in.
The difference between a fence and a wall is that you can almost always see through a fence, at least to some degree, while a wall is solid. You can use fence as a verb too: “I think I’ll fence my yard in, because my chickens keep wandering off.” If someone calls you a fence, though, they mean you’re selling stolen goods, and if you fence professionally, you participate in the sword fighting sport of fencing.
a barrier that serves to enclose an area
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backstop(baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
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chainlink fencea fence of steel wires woven into a diamond pattern
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hedge, hedgerowa fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
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paling, picket fencea fence made of upright pickets
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rail fencea fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle)
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stone walla fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields
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walla masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
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weira fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish
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dry wall, dry-stone walla stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar
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party walla wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners
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privet hedgehedge of privet plants
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retaining walla wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
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shelterbelt, windbreakhedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion
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Virginia fence, snake fence, snake-rail fence, worm fencerail fence consisting of a zigzag of interlocking rails
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barriera structure or object that impedes free movement
surround with an enclosure
surround with a wall in order to fortify
a dealer in stolen property
deal stolen goods
fight with sword-like foils
have an argument about something
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stickledispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
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sparfight verbally
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bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabbleargue over petty things
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altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel, scraphave a disagreement over something
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opposebe against; express opposition to
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brawl, wranglequarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
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spatengage in a brief and petty quarrel
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polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemizeengage in a controversy
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fall outhave a breach in relations
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contend, contest, repugnmake the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation