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Exact Match:

fence

a barrier that serves to enclose an area

a dealer in stolen property

fight with fencing swords

enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"

receive stolen goods

Synonyms:

• abatis,
• about the bush,
• advanced work,
• arch dam,
• arm,
• armor,
• armor-plate,
• around the bush,
• avoid,
• backstop,
• baffle,
• balistraria,
• balustrade,
• bamboo curtain,
• bank,
• banquette,
• bar,
• barbed wire,
• barbed-wire entanglement,
• barbican,
• barrage,
• barricade,
• barrier,
• bartizan,
• bastion,
• battle,
• battlement,
• bear-trap dam,
• beat about,
• beat around,
• beaver dam,
• beg the question,
• bicker,
• black-market,
• black-marketeer,
• bless,
• block,
• blockade,
• boggle,
• boom,
• bootleg,
• bound,
• boundary,
• box,
• brawl,
• breakwater,
• breastwork,
• brick wall,
• broil,
• buffer,
• bulkhead,
• bulkhead in,
• bulwark,
• cage,
• casemate,
• castellate,
• cavil,
• center,
• champion,
• cheval-de-frise,
• choplogic,
• circumscribe,
• circumvallation,
• clash,
• cloak,
• close,
• cofferdam,
• collide,
• combat,
• come to blows,
• compass about,
• compromise,
• confine,
• contend,
• contest,
• contravallation,
• coop,
• copyright,
• corral,
• counterscarp,
• cover,
• crenellate,
• curtain,
• cushion,
• cut and thrust,
• dam,
• defend,
• defense,
• demibastion,
• dig in,
• dike,
• ditch,
• dodge,
• drawbridge,
• duck,
• duel,
• earthwork,
• embankment,
• embattle,
• encircle,
• enclose,
• enclosure,
• ensure,
• entanglement,
• entrench,
• equivocate,
• escarp,
• escarpment,
• evade,
• evade the issue,
• exchange blows,
• feint,
• fences,
• fend,
• fend off,
• feud,
• fieldwork,
• fight,
• fight a duel,
• foil,
• fortalice,
• fortification,
• fortify,
• garrison,
• gate,
• give and take,
• give satisfaction,
• glacis,
• golden mean,
• grapple,
• grapple with,
• gravity dam,
• groin,
• guarantee,
• guard,
• half measures,
• half-and-half measures,
• halfway measures,
• happy medium,
• harbor,
• haven,
• hedge,
• hedgerow,
• hem,
• hem and haw,
• hoarding,
• hydraulic-fill dam,
• immure,
• impartial,
• indecisive,
• independent,
• insure,
• iron curtain,
• irresolute,
• jam,
• jetty,
• jostle,
• joust,
• keep,
• keep from harm,
• leaping weir,
• levee,
• logjam,
• loophole,
• lunette,
• machicolation,
• make safe,
• man,
• man the garrison,
• maneuver,
• mantelet,
• mean,
• medium,
• merlon,
• mew,
• middle course,
• middle ground,
• middle way,
• milldam,
• mine,
• mix it up,
• moat,
• moderantism,
• moderate position,
• moderateness,
• moderation,
• moderatism,
• mole,
• moonshine,
• mound,
• mystify,
• nestle,
• neutral,
• neutral ground,
• nitpick,
• obscure,
• on the fence,
• outwit,
• outwork,
• pale,
• paling,
• palisade,
• palter,
• parados,
• parapet,
• parry,
• patent,
• pen,
• pick nits,
• picket,
• police,
• portcullis,
• postern gate,
• prevaricate,
• protect,
• pull away,
• pull back,
• push,
• pussyfoot,
• put off,
• qualify,
• quarrel,
• quibble,
• rail,
• railing,
• rampart,
• rassle,
• ravelin,
• receiver,
• recoil,
• redan,
• redoubt,
• register,
• restrict,
• retaining wall,
• ride shotgun for,
• riot,
• roadblock,
• rock-fill dam,
• run a tilt,
• safeguard,
• sally port,
• scarp,
• sconce,
• scramble,
• screen,
• scuffle,
• seawall,
• secure,
• separate,
• sheer off,
• shelter,
• shield,
• shift,
• shift off,
• shilly-shally,
• shirk,
• shove,
• shrink,
• shroud,
• shuffle,
• shutter dam,
• shy,
• shy away,
• shy off,
• sidestep,
• skirmish,
• spar,
• split hairs,
• step aside,
• stockade,
• stone wall,
• stonewall,
• stop,
• strive,
• struggle,
• surround,
• swagman,
• swagsman,
• swerve,
• tenaille,
• tergiversate,
• third force,
• thrust and parry,
• tilt,
• tourney,
• trellis,
• tussle,
• unbiased,
• uncertain,
• uncommitted,
• undecided,
• underwrite,
• unprejudiced,
• vacillate,
• vacillating,
• vallation,
• vallum,
• via media,
• waffle,
• wage war,
• wall,
• war,
• ward off,
• weir,
• wicket dam,
• work,
• wrestle,
• zigzag fence