Word Finder - fences

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A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.

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Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

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Skill in oral debate.

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The art or practice of fencing.

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A guard or guide on machinery.

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A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

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A memory barrier.

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To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

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To defend or guard.

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To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.

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To engage in the sport of fencing.

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To jump over a fence.

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To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

You may notice the fences are high here.

A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter.

The pace at which a hunter should be ridden at his fences depends upon the nature of the fence, and the peculiarities of each individual horse.

I've found old rock fences, and there's an old log cabin falling into ruins not too far from here.

It can't always be white picket fences and cottages.

Fences that looked like nothing more than stacks of rock shingles edged each property.

The fields were fenced in from seed-time to harvest, after which the fences were taken 1 Translation by Clement-Mullet (Paris, 1864).

He protests against Peel's Income Tax Bill of 1842; against the Aberdeen Act 1843, as conferring undue power on church courts; against the perpetuation of diocesan courts for probate and administration; against Lord Stanley's absurd bill providing compensation for the destruction of fences to dispossessed Irish tenants; and against the Parliamentary Proceedings Bill, which proposed that all bills, except money bills, having reached a certain stage or having passed one House, should be continued to next session.

Hundreds may be seen on a bright day, disporting themselves on trees and fences, and entering houses.

Fruit trees trained as espaliers, fans or cordons against walls, trellises or fences, are not only pruned carefully in the winter but must be also pruned during the early summer months.

These commoners might be the several owners, the inhabitants of a parish, freemen of a borough, tenants of a manor, &c. The opening of the fields by throwing down the fences took place on Lammas Day (12th of August) for corn-lands and on Old Midsummer Day (6th of July) for grass.

Because of this, marram plantations seldom remain fixed unless fences are used to act as fixed points of sand buildup.

A rope or other objects can be put down to mark the boundary but garden borders, fences or anything clearly delimited will do.

Not a pleasant chap, but a shrewd politician who stabilized the Crown, and was able to mend fences.

During the chase they are likely to be involved in road or rail accidents, or injure themselves in quarry or barbed wire fences.

You are passing houses, trees, picket fences or whatever is in the street.

The buildings are substantial and commodious; the lands are generally well inclosed, and the fences mostly kept in good repair.

Great advances have been made in draining, but the lands are not inclosed, and the want of fences is seriously felt.

Landform, planting, walls and fences all play a major role in the overall design to provide a microclimate suitable for swimming.

The gateway may also include paving, grass, pillars, planters, w all s, trees, rails or fences.

It was called "Ivy Green" because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy.

Some fences are easier than others to install.

They will not cause a fire hazard so can be placed in trees or near fences.

In these hamlets most boundaries are low picket fences or iron railings sometimes set in low walls.

What you need is a good man to fix fences and tanks and chicken poops and be generally useful in the house as well.

Strainer assemblies Conventional This is the most common type of strainer assemblies Conventional This is the most common type of strainer used on fences in Britain.

The best fences have a trellis on top - they're a beggar to climb.

If your boundaries are made of high fences they can be easily broken up with flower beds or creeping vines.

Then two fences ahead was a small water jump.

It furnishes rods wherewith to make fences; but its principal use is to make wattles for the folding of sheep in the fields.

As examples of class (i.) may be mentioned - erection or enlargement of buildings, laying down of permanent pasture, making of gardens or fences, planting of hops, embankments and sluices; as examples of (ii.) - chalking of land, clay burning, application to land of purchased artificial or purchased manure, except they have been made for the purpose of making provision to protect the holding from injury or deterioration.

The quondam "'chaser" is, how ever, usually apt to be somewhat impetuous at his fences.

Owners now get grants to remove derelict fences, yet one may well query why people should be paid to remove their own rubbish.

The Oxford team has found that 2,500 years ago the area housed a thriving, bustling settlement, ringed by timber fences.

In addition to deer fences, the roe deer population is culled.

We hope there will be no more fences for physical segregation of pedestrians from traffic.

Further fields, each entered by a succession of stiles, either have horses grazing within or contain practice show jumping or steeplechase fences.

Designs for strained wire fences are shown in chapter 1.

Strainer assemblies Conventional This is the most common type of strainer used on fences in Britain.

The walking skeletons with haunted eyes staring through the fences, in striped pjamas hanging from their bones.

Plant thorny shrubs to deter unwanted visitors from climbing over your fences.

The best fences have a trellis on top - they 're a beggar to climb.

Unbeaten in two starts over fences, Racing Demon is an exciting prospect.

These fences, beside trapping windblown sand, force the waves to break farther offshore.

In North America wrangles over land rights would lead to both claimants erecting fences on both sides of the disputed area.

Buckets of water outside of your house are also potential water hazards, as well as pools, creeks, ponds, etc. You should place high fences around your pool area and put self-latching locks on the gates.

Check out each type by accessing consumer reviews online (or asking your friends with similar fences), because the time and skill required to install each fence can be substantial.

However, your pet has either demonstrated an uncanny ability to surmount the obstacles presented by fences or you prefer not to have a visible fence.

Fortunately, you have a number of options for invisible fences.

Underground fences are generally sold by the area that they cover.