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FENCER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fencer mean?
• FENCER (noun)
The noun FENCER has 1 sense:
1. someone skilled at fencing
Familiarity information: FENCER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone skilled at fencing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
fencer; swordsman
Hypernyms ("fencer" is a kind of...):
battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))
Derivation:
fence (fight with fencing swords)
Context examples
I took up a thimble filled with liquor, which Glumdalclitch had given me for a cup, and drank their health, I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it after the manner of fencers in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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