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单词 fencible
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  • He concludes that about one fencible man in eleven was killed, and every eleventh family burned out.

    Great Events in the History of North and South America|Charles A. Goodrich
  • Let fencible men, each party in its own range of streets, keep watch and ward, all night.

    The French Revolution|Thomas Carlyle
  • This beautiful girl was, about the year 1795, kept as a mistress by an adjutant of a Scotch regiment of fencible cavalry.

    A History of the Gipsies|Walter Simson
  • In his fifteenth year he enlisted in a fencible regiment, which was afterwards stationed at Inverness.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.|Various

fencible

/ (ˈfɛnsəbəl) /

adjective

a Scot word for defensible

noun

(formerly) a person who undertook military service in immediate defence of his homeland only

Words nearby fencible

fence post, fencer, fencerow, fence-sitter, fence with, fencible, fencing, fencing wire, fend, Fendalton tractor, fender
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