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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fencer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was also a good swimmer diver and horseman, as well as a fencer.
▪ It struck me that he didn't really look like a fencer at all.
▪ Only one showed him any kindness was Mosie Pick, the gutter-rag fencer of old cups and dented silver.
▪ Some fencers just held the strut in position with six-inch nails but the company frowned on this practice.
▪ The dexterity and nimble balance of elite fencers can boggle the mind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fencer

Fencer \Fen"cer\, n. One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

As blunt as the fencer's foils.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fencer

"swordsman," 1570s, agent noun from fence (v.)).

Wiktionary
fencer

n. A participant in the sport of fencing

WordNet
fencer

n. someone skilled at fencing [syn: swordsman]

Wikipedia
Fencer

Fencer may refer to:

  • Fencer, a person who participates in the sport of fencing
  • Fencer, a person who makes fences
  • Fencer, the device which energizes an electric fence
  • Fencer, the NATO reporting name of the Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet
  • HMS Fencer (D64)
  • The Fencer , a 2015 Estonian-Finnish-German film directed by Klaus Härö

See also:

  • Fence (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "fencer".

I know is this self, the person I am now, the autistic bioinformatics specialist fencer lover of Marjory.

Also, every jackeroo, station-hand, prospector, fencer, splitter and contractor in the district had made some excuse or other to get a day off for the races.

They sought the short paragraphs in which were related, in detail, the doings of the demi-monde, the last supper given by some well-known viveur, the details of some large party in such and such a fashionable club, the result of a shooting match, or of a fencing match between celebrated fencers!

This time, when they pull on the door, it swings wide, and I lunge like a fencer, stabbing the chisel point into the mouth of the nearest guard, splintering his teeth and slashing sideways to part his cheek back to the hinge of his jaw.

Balancing lightly, with the pose of a fencer, Verdugo displayed the weapon that he had produced so promptly.

If everyone liked it, I would serve it to the fencers and their families.

Although adult-only banquets usually start at eight, the over-scheduled Elk Park Prep fencers had Saturday morning commitments to indoor soccer and club basketball.

Yet now that he had the physical skills, the mental skills that took other fencers decades seemed to come to him in only a few months.

It is clear that I am improving in my fencing and that I can hold my own with the better fencers in the group.

When we look at the big chart, my name is number nineteen, but down in the lower right-hand corner, where seven first-time fencers are listed, my name is at the top.

I know is this self, the person I am now, the autistic bioinformatics specialist fencer lover of Marjory.

Among rogues and idle persons, finally, we find to be comprised all proctors that go up and down with counterfeit licences, cozeners, and such as gad about the country, using unlawful games, practisers of physiognomy and palmestry, tellers of fortunes, fencers, players, minstrels, jugglers, pedlers, tinkers, pretended scholars, shipmen, prisoners gathering for fees, and others so oft as they be taken without sufficient licence.

His curtness she could meet and match with her own flippancy, guarding herself as with a fencers foil.

If both fencers score a hit within that time frame, which happens more often than you might think, both lights will come on and it will be scored as a double touch.

Five minutes after the last'GL-25 cruise missile hit its initial point, the Kiev and Novorossiysk attack carriers began launching the first of a dozen Sukhoi-24 Fencer supersonic bomber aircraft off their ski-ramp launch platforms toward the American vessels.