a. [f. FENCE sb. + -FUL.] Affording defence; protecting or shielding.

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1616.  Chapman, Batrachom. (1858), 8.

                  Their fenceful bucklers were
The middle rounds of can’sticks.

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1729.  Savage, Wanderer, I. 206.

        He clear’d, manur’d, enlarg’d the furtive Ground,
And firms the Conquest with his fenceful Mound.

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1751.  G. West, Education, I. xlviii.

        Then swiftly drawing forth his trenchant blade,
High o’er his head he held his fenceful shield;
And warily forecasting to evade
The giant’s furious arm about him wheel’d.

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