Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a fence; uninclosed; defenseless; unguarded; open: as, the fenceless ocean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.
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- adjective Without a
fence ;unfenced .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is why the “fenceless fence” shock collar device that works so well to keep dogs contained is not recommended for cats.
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As I understand him, he felt silence to be sufficient where scorn was merited, and he did not sit at all, let alone on a fence, but rather strode, in a style famously like no other, forward to a frontier fenceless, literally and figuratively, beckoning the rest of us follow.
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As I understand him, he felt silence to be sufficient where scorn was merited, and he did not sit at all, let alone on a fence, but rather strode, in a style famously like no other, forward to a frontier fenceless, literally and figuratively, beckoning the rest of us follow.
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We stay up all night, giddy and giggly, and talk and plot until our mouths are dry deserts, drier than the fenceless and defenseless north of Kuwait.
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Hillary promotes a fenceless barrier, which is virtually no barrier at all.
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Their faces were close enough to rub noses like Eskimos, and their breath left traces of fog between the fenceless boundary that separated their lips.
A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007
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It ` s much harder to build a long elaborate tunnel than it is just to walk across a fenceless border, isn ` t it?
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Their faces were close enough to rub noses like Eskimos, and their breath left traces of fog between the fenceless boundary that separated their lips.
A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007
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Their faces were close enough to rub noses like Eskimos, and their breath left traces of fog between the fenceless boundary that separated their lips.
A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007
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Your fenceless cattle herding experience probably sound familiar to those managing educationalists - often likened to herding cats!
Blogs as knowledge management jay 2006
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