fence的意思|fence的解释-里氏词典

Fence \Fence\ (f[e^]ns), n. [Abbrev. from defence.]
1. That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a
protection; a cover; security; shield.

Let us be backed with God and with the seas,
Which he hath given for fence impregnable. --Shak.

A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.
--Addison.

2. 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.

Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.
--Milton.

Note: In England a hedge, ditch, or wall, as well as a
structure of boards, palings, or rails, is called a
fence.

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

4. 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}.

Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric,
That hath so well been taught her dazzing fence.
--Milton.

Of dauntless courage and consummate skill in fence.
--Macaulay.

5. A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are
received. [Slang] --Mayhew.

{Fence month} (Forest Law), the month in which female deer
are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. --Bullokar.

{Fence roof}, a covering for defense. ``They fitted their
shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof.''
--Holland.

{Fence time}, the breeding time of fish or game, when they
should not be killed.

{Rail fence}, a fence made of rails, sometimes supported by
posts.

{Ring fence}, a fence which encircles a large area, or a
whole estate, within one inclosure.

{Worm fence}, a zigzag fence composed of rails crossing one
another at their ends; -- called also {snake fence}, or
{Virginia rail fence}.

{To be on the fence}, to be undecided or uncommitted in
respect to two opposing parties or policies. [Colloq.]

Fence \Fence\, v. i.
1. To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as
against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a
fence.

Vice is the more stubborn as well as the more
dangerous evil, and therefore, in the first place,
to be fenced against. --Locke.

2. To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword
or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the
point only.

He will fence with his own shadow. --Shak.

3. Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that
is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.

They fence and push, and, pushing, loudly roar;
Their dewlaps and their sides are bat?ed in gore.
--Dryden.

As when a billow, blown against,
Falls back, the voice with which I fenced
A little ceased, but recommenced. --Tennyson.

Fence \Fence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fenced} (f[e^]nst); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Fencing} (f[e^]n"s[i^]ng).]
1. To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect;
to guard.

To fence my ear against thy sorceries. --Milton.

2. To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by
an inclosure.

O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth,
And fence not Athens. --Shak.

A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees. --Shak.

{To fence the tables} (Scot. Church), to make a solemn
address to those who present themselves to commune at the
Lord's supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service,
in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are
unworthy from approaching the table. --McCheyne.

The inmates had to cut through bars on the cells, break a window, cut through bars outside the window and cross a fence to get away, Howell said.
The smaller plane was flung nose-first into a blast fence, but the only two people aboard, the pilot and co-pilot, walked away and did not require medical attention, authorities said.
She said it also contains a "fence agreement" guaranteeing that Eastern would remain separate from Continental Airlines.
The proposal to remove the convent founded in 1984 just outside the Auschwitz fence has found little sympathy among Poles.
However, since my garden is intensely densely planted and by 10 p.m. visibility is low even with fireflies and the all-night burglar light of the people over the back fence, I proposed burial in the a.m.
The house has been part of the Garden District tour as long as the National Park Service has been giving it, he said. "This fence, they say, is the prototype for chain-link fence," he told the tourists.
The house has been part of the Garden District tour as long as the National Park Service has been giving it, he said. "This fence, they say, is the prototype for chain-link fence," he told the tourists.
The copter crashed into the fence surrounding an exercise yard, injuring both the would-be escapee and the pilot.
They tied Julio to the fence to keep his weight from making the wound larger or possibly fracturing his neck, said Firefighter Peter Cozeolino.
People in Minot asked last week for a fence between their neighborhood and the store, to improve scenery and to prevent shoppers from tromping through yards to get to Wal-Mart.
His knees weak with fright, Bernhardt crossed the strip of land separating the tower from the 10 foot-high steel-mesh fence blocking his way to West Berlin.
"One car pulled up and four guys came rolling out of it with their guns," he said. "Three of them took up positions outside the fence while the other one sneaked in toward the decoy.
Paul Jesson as Peachum the fence and Anthony O'Donnell as Lockit the gaoler stay on terms with Gay's text, trading the great line 'I can forgive, as well as resent'.
"He told me where the wire cutters and gloves were left, where he left them," said Ed Schock, his father. "I can't say if he was alone, but I think he did it." Police said a witness saw Schock toss an object over the armory fence and run.
But Tristan's mother, Loveday Jenkin, is on the opposite side of the fence: She's a teacher of phonemic Cornish.
"Animal Control caught two and the third jumped over the fence," Ham said of the stray turkeys that wound up in her fenced-in backyard Monday.
Hungary has dismantled nearly half of the barbed wire fence and alarm system that has divided this communist nation from the West for more than 30 years, an official said.
Quiles watched the search from his doorway across a fence from the Noda home, and told her family that Joanna was bound to turn up, said her cousin Tanya Lopez.
But Mr. Brannon says he is "on the fence" about the company's takeover candidacy, because the Pentagon might oppose such an acquisition of a defense contractor.
Inmate Diane Mason, interviewed as she was receiving oxygen in an ambulance, said she was talking to her boyfriend through a fence when she heard people yell that there was a fight in the minimum-security area.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said about 70 anti-council lawyers tried to storm the building Tuesday, jumping over the outer fence, racing across the small surrounding garden and diving through windows in the villa.
By toying with trade restrictions, Mr. Minnick said to the analysts, the industry risks becoming "a fat boy sitting on a fence just waiting to be knocked flat," like autos and steel.
"We haven't had the luxury of working with the administration in the last seven years because we've been on opposite sides of the fence," Morris said.
It said the militants threw stones and set fire to a fence but relinquished control of the two checkpoints after speaking with Moldavian leaders.
Morrison was among about 50 demonstrators who climbed a fence at an abandoned railroad siding on the north side of the plant, re-creating an August 1976 protest there that was the first group civil disobedience ever against a U.S. nuclear power plant.
And despite the money brought by legions of tourists, who come to worship the wax statue of Jimmie Rodgers or peek over the fence at Webb Pierce's guitar-shaped pool, much of Nashville has regarded its rhinestone aristocracy with a bilious eye.
The field has been improved over the years by volunteers. It has a fence and scoreboard and dugouts and clubhouse and grandstands.
Lawrencia Bembenek, 31, a former model and policewoman convicted of murdering her then-husband's ex-wife in 1981, is believed to have fled with her fiance after scaling a fence July 15 at a women's prison in east-central Wisconsin.
Alternatively, if he tries and fails to put a son-of-Maastricht bill through the Commons, or if he shames himself and shies at that fence, he can be replaced.
The owner's sons and police chased the emu, named PeeWee, through streets in this seaside town southeast of Boston until police finally surrounded him with a wire fence in a pasture.

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