- present participle of fence.
fencing
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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
"We used to lay electric fencing before the GPS collars came in," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nearby fields were littered with broken deckchairs, scraps of fiberglass insulation and pieces of wire fencing ripped apart by the fierce winds that struck the village and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Since I couldn’t plant, I turned to another big chore: fencing.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
His blockings, hedgings, and fencings have spoiled the expanse of hillside and vale in much the same manner as in Albion.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?
From The White Desert by Anton Otto Fischer
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
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