1. noun /fɛn(t)s/
a) A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
There was a weak place in the fence separating the two inclosures
b) A middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
I bruised my shin th other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence
2. verb /fɛn(t)s/
Here are twenty acres of land, and it is all you can properly farm, unless you have more help than yourself. Now fence and cultivate it, and you can make an abundant living.
b) To defend or guard.
Challenges are flying right and left between these bully-swordsmen, these spadassinicides, and poor devils of the robe who have never learnt to fence with anything but a quill.
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