A useful way to hold this word: fencing is what a fence does, turned into a noun. A fence stands between two sides and keeps them apart. The wood and wire that do the keeping-apart are fencing. In the sport, the sword is what stands between you and the other player, and the whole skill is in keeping them off. In the crime word, a person stands between the thief and the buyer, and the goods pass through without the two ever meeting.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records only this much: fencing comes from Middle English fensing, and is fence + -ing. That supports the -ing part — the doing of it, or the stuff used for it — but it does not say how the sword sense and the barrier sense separated, so the shared picture above is offered as a way to remember the word, not as its history.
手上的資料只記到這一步：fencing 來自中古英語 fensing，等於 fence 加 -ing。這說明了 -ing 的作用，也就是「做這件事」或「做這件事用的東西」。至於劍和圍籬這兩個意思怎麼分開的，資料沒有說，所以上面那條共通的線只是記憶用的想法，不是它的歷史。
Wiktionary, packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:310322857 — "From Middle English fensing, equivalent to fence + -ing."
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fencingnoun詞源 1/ˈfɛnsɪŋ/
- 1
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).
- The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
- 2
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.
- 3
slangcriminologyhuman-scienceslawThe buying and receiving of stolen goods.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。