What is "fend"

Usage examples of "fend".

Perhaps the Terrans might even fend him someone terrible, like Colonel Bogey, to make the forests cringe and the animals die magically at the touch of a wire.

Maylo into the backseat, left Booly to fend for himself, and circled the floater to take his position behind the controls.

The rotten twister lets me and Byrt fend for ourselves with the goblins.

Old One snarled, fending off my attempt to insert reason into his thought process.

Barmaids scurried from table to table, balancing wooden steins on teetering trays, serving rowdy customers, fending passes, keeping up with the orders.

He thought she would likely be able to handle the thankless task of fending off his family.

Mountain curved horn-shaped about the great verdant bowl, fending the wind.

The hand not employed in feeding Annie was fending off Dennis the pig, who was showing an unseemly interest in sharing their meal.

Apparently, there were too few suitors in Khet since the Javanite army drafted many of the eligible men to help fend off various military incursions by barbarians from the north.

So, while he turned to the daunting job of commanding the debarkation of all our company and our gear, I hailed a karaji ferry skiff and, fending off the solicitors, was the first to go ashore.

Burning oil was loosed through the machicolations above to splash down upon the Ogrus, but the fire shield fended the flaming liquid, splashing it aside.

Rod suffered through innumerable dinner parties, mediated arguments between scientists and crew, and fended off attempts by Dr.

Oh well, Maxi would have to fend for himself, she thought, knowing full well, right about now, Popi would be pouring the little imp a glass of milk and telling him he could only have one cookie before lunch, then serving him three on his dish.

With practiced skill the Mull fended off such importunities or appointed a study commission, which invariably reported the Treaty lands to be havens of peace compared to the Retent, where the independent tribes conducted feuds, raids, assassinations, retaliations, outrages, massacres, atrocities and ambushes.

Struggling to reach out, to fend off, to find a place of safety or shelter, Roti twisted in the levitation field that held him, twisted and could find no purchase, no direction for escape.