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      fence
      noun
      A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
      (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
      (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
      Skill in oral debate.
      A guard or guide on machinery.
      (programming) A memory barrier.
      (cricket) The boundary.
      (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
      (obsolete, uncountable) The art or practice of fencing.
      verb
      (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
      (transitive) To defend or guard.
      (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
      (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
      (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
      (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
      Roots
      defendofenc- · Latin · ward off
      Synonyms for fence
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