Definition of fence

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Fence (n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking..

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Mask :: Mask (n.) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask..
Viewer :: Viewer (n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same..
Rail :: Rail (n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences..
Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence..
Wear :: Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish..
Unfence :: Unfence (v. t.) To strip of a fence; to remove a fence from.
Plashoot :: Plashoot (n.) A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed..
Inclosure :: Inclosure (n.) That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.
Bar :: Bar (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door..
Curtilage :: Curtilage (n.) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc..
Defence :: Defence (n.) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
Timber :: Timber (n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
Stumped :: Stump (n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece..
Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board..
Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..
Thrust :: Thrust (v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist..
Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence..
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