fence post

A piece of timber or a structure of other material, planted vertically in the ground, to hold panels of a fence. Fence-post driver : A device like a trip-hammer or pile-driver, mounted upon wheels, and used for driving fence-posts which have been previously sharpened. After the hammer attains its height, the rope is cast off suddenly and the hammer drops. fence-school, s. The same as FENCING-SCHOOL (q. v.). IMG:content-1542.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To protect, to fortify, to surround. "I fenced it round with gallant institutes." Tennyson: Prince , v. 382. 2. To inclose in any way; to envelop. "Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews." Job x. 11. 3. To ward or parry by argument or reasoning. B. Intransitive: I. Literally : 1. To practice the art of fencing; to exercise in the use of weapons. 2. To be skilled in fencing. 3. To fight or contend; to struggle. "They fence and push, and, pushing, loudly roar, Their dewlaps and their sides are bathed in gore." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic iii. 343, 344. 4. To raise a fence; to guard. II. Fig .: To endeavor to parry arguments or questions by equivocating; to equivocate. (1) To fence a court : To open the Parliament, or a court of law. This was anciently done in the name of the sovereign, by the use of a particular form of words. (2) To fence the Lord's Table , or the Tables : To give directions to those who design to communicate, after what is denominated the Action Sermon. fěnçed, a. [Eng. fenc(e); -ed.] Fortified; in closed with a fence. *fen çe-fül, a. [Eng. fence; ful ( 1 ).] Affording defense; defensive. *fěn'çe-le , a. [Eng. fence ; -le .] fendliche