Etymology

fencing

F4E1N1C3I1N1G2

Today it means: The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing). Full definition →

Middle English fensing
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

fencing · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromfensing
  2. English todayfencing

From Middle English fensing, equivalent to fence + -ing.

fencing · verb2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.