OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17145

fence

/fɛns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
perista • reducidor
Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the…
The Finn was a fence, a trafficker in stolen goods, primarily in software. In the course of this business, he sometimes came into contact with other fences, some of whom dealt in t…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 17146

fence

/fɛns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cercar
To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
[…] O thou wall, That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth, And fence not Athens.
[…] pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc’d about with olive trees?