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Definition of Outfence
1. to surpass in fencing [v -FENCED, -FENCING, -FENCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outfence
Literary usage of Outfence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carlyle and the War by Marshall Kelly (1915)
"Yea, give over the notion, too, that however much in him, the rightly noble can
always outfence ..."
2. The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story by Hélène Adeline Guerber (1913)
"... Robin challenged the stranger, who, suddenly dropping his affected manners,
snatched a stake from the hedge and proceeded to outfence Robin. ..."
3. History of the Forest of Rossendale by Thomas Newbigging (1893)
"Townley had laid ; and the outfence then built forms the present boundary."
(c) Harrison, in his Description of England, remarks :—" The ..."
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