[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of vertical posts connected with horizontal sections of sturdy material or materials, as wood, metal, vinyl, or wire, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary:Our garden fence is not high enough to keep the deer out.", "Informal.a person who receives and disposes of stolen goods.", "the place of business of such a person.", "the act, practice, art, or sport of fencing.", "skill in argument, repartee, etc.", "Machinery.a guard or guide, as for regulating the movements of a tool or work.", "Carpentry.a slotted guide used especially with a framing square to lay out cuts on rafters and staircase strings.", "Archaic.a means of defense; a bulwark."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to enclose by some barrier, establishing exclusive right to possession:to fence a farm.", "to separate by or as by a fence or fences (often followed byin, off, out,etc.):to fence off a corner of one's yard; to fence out unwholesome influences.", "to defend; protect; guard:The president was fenced by bodyguards wherever he went.", "to ward off; keep out.", "Informal.to sell (stolen goods) to a fence.", "Nautical.to reinforce (an opening in a sail or the like) by sewing on a grommet or other device."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to practice the art or sport of fencing.", "to parry arguments; strive to avoid giving direct answers; hedge:The mayor fenced when asked if he would run again.", "(of a horse) to leap over a fence.", "Obsolete.to raise a defense."]}]