Usually means: Barrier enclosing an area, structure.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word fence:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fence: Merriam-Webster
  2. fence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fence, fence: Wordnik
  7. fence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fence: Wiktionary
  9. fence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fence: Dictionary.com
  13. fence (n.), fence (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fence (comic book), Fence (criminal), Fence (disambiguation), Fence (finance), Fence (magazine), Fence (mathematics), Fence (woodworking), Fence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fence: Rhymezone
  19. fence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fence: FreeDictionary.org
  22. fence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. fence: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. fence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. fence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. fence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Fence (disambiguation), fence: Legal dictionary
  7. Fence: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fence: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. fence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fence: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fence: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fence: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Fence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. fence: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fence, fence, fence, fence: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fence: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Fence, The Fence: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Fence: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Fence: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See fenced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
noun:  (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
noun:  (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
noun:  Skill in oral debate.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) The art or practice of fencing.
noun:  A guard or guide on machinery.
noun:  (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
noun:  (programming) A memory barrier.
noun:  (cricket) The boundary.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
verb:  (transitive) To defend or guard.
verb:  (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
verb:  (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
verb:  (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
verb:  (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.

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