I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a boundary wall/fence
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The boundary wall was about twenty foot high.
a wire fence
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We drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence.
chain-link fence
perimeter fence/wall
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A mine blew a hole in the perimeter wall.
picket fence
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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One elephant put an electric fence out of action by dropping an uprooted tree on it.
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It may be strip-grazed behind an electric fence , cut and carted to the cattle-yard, or made into arable silage.
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On this new open landscape some cattle grazing is controlled by electric fences which are easily moved.
high
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They were trapped by high security fences from escaping the overcrowded stand.
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They are surrounded by high metal fences , guarded by police all day, and brightly lit by spotlights through the night.
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Surround carrot patch with a 15-18in high polythene fence to deter root fly.
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A couple of the boys did once, climbing over the high chain link fence around the playground.
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The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her.
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Interesting place, a large wooden dwelling in Tuscan red with green shutters behind a high brown wooden fence .
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There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in.
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Fit a strong, high gate or fence .
low
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He ran, and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence .
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The older graves had crosses and stone angels, low wrought-iron fences .
white
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Theodora leaned over the white rail fence which formed the fourth side of Yaxlee's yard.
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The cemetery was surrounded by a white picket fence , maybe seventy yards square.
wooden
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Follow a wooden fence to cross a stile and head to the waymarked gate downhill from the farm buildings on the left.
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He stayed at his side, directing him toward the wooden fence , then moving him back toward the gate.
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He ran, and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence .
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They walked along the tall wooden fence that cut the construction site off from the avenue.
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His car had plunged down a motorway verge and into a wooden fence .
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Q: I planted nine tomatoes by a wooden fence and six close to the back wall of the house.
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At the bottom of the hill there was a wooden fence .
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Interesting place, a large wooden dwelling in Tuscan red with green shutters behind a high brown wooden fence .
■ NOUN
boundary
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There they would touch the boundary fence and march smartly back again.
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The ostrich, anxious to join in the fun again, craned his long neck well forward over the boundary fence .
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The ball had reached the boundary fence - the ostrich's head merely being an extension of it.
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It's sited only about a quarter mile from the northern boundary fence .
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Remember that when a rabbit comes through your boundary fence on to your land it automatically changes ownership.
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Where boundary fences are in poor condition, the estimated cost of rectification should be assessed as part of the financial appraisal.
garden
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She scrambled over the garden fence and joined them, shy, thrilled.
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Thieves cut their way through a garden fence and wrenched free statues and vases from the grounds of Tatton Park at Knutsford.
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I turn around and see a small, fat man leaning on his garden fence .
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Elisabeth took her bicycle from where she had lent it against the garden fence .
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There was no formal garden to the house, no garden fence .
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Last night a Vauxhall Astra careered up and down outside crashing down the garden fence .
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We are not suggesting that it was a good thing that a flock of kids roosted on Mr Jones's garden fence .
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This may vary from a few words exchanged over the garden fence , to visits which last all day.
metal
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Jim said I appeared to be: George had been happy with a metal fence .
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They are surrounded by high metal fences , guarded by police all day, and brightly lit by spotlights through the night.
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The 16-year-old passenger was flung from the vehicle head first into a metal fence .
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People were jammed behind a metal fence , waiting for passengers coming in from abroad to emerge from Customs.
picket
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Who now remembers the second Clairol blowing from the picket fence ?
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I learned how to untie the rope and would push my brother over this picket fence .
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Rickety grey picket fence , low gate ajar.
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I mean there will be no wedding no babies no picket fences .
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There was a picket fence , and a small gate.
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The paint is bright, the picket fence in the front is in good shape.
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In a flash, Creed was out of the jeep and creeping past foliage and tree-trunks towards the beginning of the picket fence .
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Berry lives in a white frame home with a brown picket fence on the edge of Newville.
post
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Soldier impaled on fence post tells how he survived.
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The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth.
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He was beaten with a fence post and stabbed.
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Our big thing here recently in the Southwest is displaying boots on fence posts along the highways.
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Huge pyres of old railway sleepers and fence posts are being built to burn the bodies.
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I would have been great as a chef, a Mandarin actor, or a fence post .
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Patrick leaned in satisfaction on a fence post .
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On the right is a worker painting bowling pins the size of fence posts .
security
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They were trapped by high security fences from escaping the overcrowded stand.
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For instance, minimum-security inmates have just about finished installing two 12-foot security fences .
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A security fence , with watchtowers, protects the base against attack by ground forces.
wire
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I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence .
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Caught in a barbed wire fence .
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Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence .
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And when that wire fence tears through those little babies fall through and die.
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On either side of the well-guarded checkpoint stretched wire fences , barbed-wire entanglements and minefields.
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The aroma of fish and bread will drift over the hungry children standing behind the barbed wire fence , watching, waiting.
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The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her.
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He was doing wheelies on a steep bank with a wire fence at the top.
■ VERB
build
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Maybe it was them who built the fences and he was the brains behind the organization.
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He also brought a carpenter and some posts and rough planks, and built a fence to keep the wolves away.
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Forrester recommends three principles for companies wishing to build fences in the right place.
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Still, early this year, city officials built a fence around the portions marked for development and the proposed park.
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We were used to building fences over sloping land and difficult terrain.
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Tam had complained earlier about how he was for ever sneaking up on them and poking about while they were building the fence .
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This made building the fence quite exhausting.
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It consisted of step-by-step diagrams of how to build a fence , with little stick men doing the work.
climb
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They climbed over the fence like monkeys while the squire and Gray fired at them.
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You could always find something entertaining to do around Morrisonville. Climb a fence .
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Dusk gathers about you like a coat when you climb a fence and reach a road.
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She says that they kept her awake at night, and climbed over the fences .
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Anyone trying to climb the fence could have been impaled on spikes the size of joiner's nails.
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You will see that we have followed our own advice and climbed down off the fence here.
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You pick up the path after you've climbed the fence behind the campsite toilet.
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After climbing the ancient fence which bordered the pub's premises, he leaned back against the fence for another breather.
erect
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Three men, including one called Andrew Cunningham, were brought to the surface to erect the fence .
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Buchanan wants to erect a fence on the nation Southwest border to stop illegal immigration.
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The city erected a temporary fence around the tree and postponed grading of the area.
jump
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I have often referred to my own fear when I was first required to make a horse jump a fence .
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Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence .
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You and your horse need to be capable of jumping solid fences safely and under control.
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I think the bull jumped the fence .
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It jumped the fence lower down and disappeared from sight.
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By herself she could jump over fences and ditches better than her brothers.
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However, if you are committed to jumping a fence , they should not get in the way.
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Some have been unable to wait, jumping the fence at night and skating on the completed ramps.
mend
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The only thing she could do now was find Ana and mend a few fences .
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He'd be mending the fence by the garage tomorrow, Saturday.
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Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife?
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Security has tightened since the bombing, but the royal family has tried to mend fences .
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Voice over Stephen Morgan wants to mend fences with the council not build obstacles.
sit
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It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence .
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Then we went outside and sat on a stone fence in the warm and gentle sun.
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If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues.
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He is the obvious choice for those who wish to sit on the fence .
stand
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The purple girl, now in black, stood by the fence smoking greedily.
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The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth.
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It was a long bus-ride to reach those low huts standing behind the high fence .
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But the masterpieces stand along the front fence .
surround
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The building site was surrounded by a token fence consisting of two slack strands of barbed wire.
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They are surrounded by high metal fences , guarded by police all day, and brightly lit by spotlights through the night.
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Some of the settlements were surrounded by ditches and fences and could be fiercely defended against other warring tribes.
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Los Alamos was located in the high desert miles from Santa Fe and was surrounded by a barbed-wire fence .
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It was a long, low building, a hall or school perhaps, surrounded by a mesh fence .
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The whole is surrounded by a rustic fence .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mend (your) fences
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Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife?
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Security has tightened since the bombing, but the royal family has tried to mend fences.
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Voice over Stephen Morgan wants to mend fences with the council not build obstacles.
sit on the fence
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You can't sit on the fence any longer - what's it going to be?
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He is the obvious choice for those who wish to sit on the fence.
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If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues.
take a bend/fence/corner etc
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But Jack managed to have Bailey taking a corner - and then Bailey heading the flag-kick into the net.
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He was also taking fencing, just because it was new and different.
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Lucker has not been taking corners well.
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Next time she came ... He began fantasising and had to take avoiding action 81 when he took a corner too wide.
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Riding to hounds, taking fences and obstacles along a route dictated by the fox is a very skilled activity.
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They take corners to the far post and have a direct shot at goal from a free kick.
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Vi took a corner seat farthest away from the door.
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We took a corner table and sat down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A workman adjusting a machine removed the fence and turned the machine by hand in order to do the job.
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And John, the stud bull spooked by the power lines that suddenly appear on the other side of the fence .
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He was beaten with a fence post and stabbed.
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If 64 horses start a race of six fences and half of those left fall at each fence, how many finish?
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Q: I planted nine tomatoes by a wooden fence and six close to the back wall of the house.
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They tore the fence down to get at us.
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Three arrangements with eight fences; five with ten fences ... odd numbers ... Was there a pattern?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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Now enlightened farmers are fencing off and replanting areas which can he selectively utilised for animal feeding.
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The rink would not be fenced off in the families-only section and would be open for use by adults.
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In some areas, that means fencing off hot spots or cleaning them up.
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The resort was fenced off from the rest of the island and its people.
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Perhaps we should fence off all the roads, down to a depth of several feet and a height of many yards.
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The Republicans have fenced off the convention with chain link.
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Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults.
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Brock suggests that areas be fenced off to limit cattle grazing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Now enlightened farmers are fencing off and replanting areas which can he selectively utilised for animal feeding.
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They have all been trapped by the high rift walls that fence in the plain.
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Those who have ever given fencing a chance up-close, probably realize that it always has been an entertaining event.
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Till now they had fenced gently.