fencing
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈfɛn.sɪŋ/
- Using durable wire fencing, the gardener protected her vegetable patch from rabbits.
- chain-link fencing
- conventional fencing
- fencing costs
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Watch on YouTubeAnd then this tub right here just has kind of like fencing pieces, like little twigs and little wood rounds that you can make little pathways with.
- And then this tub right here just has kind of like fencing pieces, like little twigs and little wood rounds that you can make little pathways with.
Examples
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The steers fattened and grew sleek, the apple trees had been pruned, and the fencing stood stout and impenetrable.
Fiction book (1998) -
Alternatively, ranchers could protect streams using fencing to keep livestock fecal matter from entering waterways.
Academic text (2008) -
What about all that fencing?
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Put up stronger fencing, huh?
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Cow-calf operations are costly; they require more labor, more fencing, more management, and more medicine.
Academic text (1993) -
If you wanted to take any tools, you'd have to get through the fencing with wire cutters.
Fiction book (2002) -
The reporters and cameramen were five deep by the wooden gate with its wire fencing.
Fiction book (1998) -
As you can see, we've got perimeter fencing, not fool-proof, though, but stops those things from getting in.
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Whatever its merits in disease control, fencing has clearly paid off in reassuring European beef buyers.
Academic text (2006) -
"We have fifty miles of twelve-foot-high fencing, including twenty-two miles around the perimeter of the island."
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
A structure around land to mark or protect it
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4.8
A barrier put up to block a road or entrance
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2.0
A row of closely planted bushes that forms a low natural fence
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3.4
Wire with sharp points used to stop people or animals from crossing
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2.0
A row of upright wooden or metal boards with spaces that mark the edge of a yard
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2.7
A low fence made by stacking rough stones to mark boundaries or keep animals out
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2.0
A line made by a fence that shows the edge of a field or property
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7.9
A strong fence of close wooden posts to protect a place
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9.0
A strong fence of upright wooden or metal posts used for protection
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7.2
A fence made of thin upright wooden and metal stakes or one of those stakes
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4.3
A fence made of long wooden rails laid in a zigzag to keep animals in
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2.4
A wire fence with diamond-shaped holes used to surround yards or sports fields
A fence of strong wooden posts set close together to protect a place
A fence of wooden posts that keeps people or animals out
A fence made from vertical flat pieces of slate wired together
A net of thin wires used for fences or decoration
A strong wire with sharp points used in fences to stop people or animals
A wooden fence made of rails laid in a zigzag pattern without posts
A low wooden rail barrier that forms a zigzag pattern to mark or enclose land
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Etymology
Fencing comes from fence, a shorter form of defence and related to defend, which means 'to protect'. So fencing are the materials that act as a 'defence' to keep animals or people in or out.