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Crossword-Solution: FENCE 5 letters, 307 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Fence n. That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a
protection; a cover; security; shield.
Fence n. An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any
object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other
material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from
within.
Fence n. A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler
gates in locking and unlocking.
Fence n. Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice
of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See
Fencing.
Fence n. A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are
received.
Fence v. t. To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect;
to guard.
Fence v. t. To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by
an inclosure.
Fence v. i. To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as
against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
Fence v. i. To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword
or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
Fence v. i. Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that
is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.

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FENCE anagram ENFCE

We have 307 clues for the answer “FENCE”

Clue Answers
"Don't ___ me in." 1 answer
"Picket" yard enclosure 1 answer
A haha. 1 answer
A hedge, possibly 1 answer
Abet a thief, say 1 answer
Alternative to a hedge 1 answer
Art of sword play. 1 answer
Avoid giving a direct reply. 1 answer
Backyard barrier 1 answer
Backyard border 1 answer
Baffle by evasion. 1 answer
Barrier around the house 1 answer
Barrier between neighbors 1 answer
Barrier maker 1 answer
Barrier on some property lines 1 answer
Border marker 1 answer
Border structure 1 answer
Border with many posts 1 answer
Boundary marker of a sort 1 answer
Build a barrier 1 answer
Butt's barrier = Brent's______ 1 answer
Buyer of stolen goods 1 answer
Chain-link or picket, e.g. 1 answer
Chicken run border 1 answer
Chop shop shopper 1 answer
Colloquial perch for the undecided 1 answer
Common property divider 1 answer
Compete in a Summer Olympic sport 1 answer
Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon 1 answer
Compete using an epee 1 answer
Compete with a foil 1 answer
Compete with an epee 1 answer
Confining structure 1 answer
Cross swords, say 1 answer
Cyclone or picket, e.g. 1 answer
Deal in hot merchandise 1 answer
Dealer in "hot" items 1 answer
Dealer in hot commodities 1 answer
Dealer in hot goods 1 answer
Dealer in hot properties 1 answer
Dealer in hot property 1 answer
Dealer in hot stuff 1 answer
Dealer in stolen goods 1 answer
Dealer who only pays in cash 1 answer
Dickens's Fagin, for one 1 answer
Divider of neighboring yards 1 answer
Do part of a modern pentathlon 1 answer
Engage in a touching display? 1 answer
Engage in parrying and thrusting 1 answer
Engage in swordplay 1 answer
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Sentences with FENCE (5)

During this time, my copy-book was the board fence, brick wall, and pavement; my pen and ink was a lump of chalk.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Just ahead of them was the Norwegian graveyard, where the grass had, indeed, grown back over everything, shaggy and red, hiding even the wire fence.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season, yet putting it down instantly to their great fondness for ivy in winter-time, of which a great deal grew in the plantation, he followed through the hedge.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Long-suffering father, Oedipus, the towers That fence the city still are faint and far; But where we stand is surely holy ground; A wilderness of laurel, olive, vine; Within a choir or songster nightingales Are warbling.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest, with yellow tongues already writhing from it, completely encircling the space with a fence of fire.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with FENCE (3)

You must have been going very fast.""I was, until I hit the fence.
Anthony Horowitz Ark Angel
Almondine To her, the scent and the memory of him were one. Where it lay strongest, the distant past came to her as if that morning: Taking a dead sparrow from her jaws, before she knew to hide such things. Guiding her to the floor, bending her knee until the arthritis made it stick, his palm hotsided on her ribs to measure her breaths and know where the pain began. And to comfort her. That had been the week before he went away. He was gone, she knew this, but something of hi…
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who could make dogs salivate when they heard a bell ring. Seligman wanted to head in the other direction, and when he rang his bell, instead of providing food, he zapped the dogs with electricity. To keep them still, he restrained them in a harness during the experiment. After they were conditioned, he put these dogs in a big box with a little fence …
David McRaney You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 237 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).