- present participle of fence.
fencing
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"The acquisition of The Turf is a continuation of the strategy to protect the future of the club and its interests by ring fencing key areas related to the life of the club."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Our U.S. employees turn bare metal into products like aircraft components, fencing, windows, accessibility ramps, truck bodies, solar racking and thousands of other products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The initial proposal called for green wrought-iron fencing around both sides of MacArthur Park, with gates at eight existing entry and exit points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
No one was talking about anything but fencing.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
Ha! ha! my dearest," thought he, "I knew, notwithstanding all your beautiful startings and fencings, that matters would come to this.
From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
These word fencings had begun, of course, as a child would naturally have begun them, with the stilted sentences and high-flown remarks which she had lifted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
As Pascal to Escobar, so is Palestrina to Master Hugues; quibbles, shams, fencings with truth, overlay God’s gold with the cobwebs of tradition, and must be brushed away.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
The long low stable buildings, the tall white masts and bright yellow flags, numberless white-painted cages, aviaries, outhouses, and the spotless white of the fencings and gateways, all lend it a pleasing individuality.
From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various
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