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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 fencingplay

  Familiarity information: FENCER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FENCER (noun)


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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