Fenceful

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    As many as make up or line a fence.

    "Yes, they were as dry and inflammable as one would expect; I had only to drop a match among them and the whole fenceful would flare up — and perhaps half the Riverina as well."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Affording defense; defensive. obsolete

    "But of all the modern Historians there is not anyone has writ with a greater observance of the fenceful Character, than Mariana in his History of Spain."

Example

More examples

"But of all the modern Historians there is not anyone has writ with a greater observance of the fenceful Character, than Mariana in his History of Spain."

Etymology

From fence + -ful.

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