verb

1. To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

2. To defend or guard.

3. To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

Synonyms: pawn

noun

1. The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing)

2. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.

   “Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.”