fencible
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In his fifteenth year he enlisted in a fencible regiment, which was afterwards stationed at Inverness.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
You know Frazer, the hautboy player in Edinburgh—he is here instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this country.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
You know Frazer, the hautboy-player in Edinburgh—he is here, instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this county.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
The Committee of Estates dared to resist the Remonstrants: even the Commissioners of the General Assembly “cannot be against the raising of all fencible persons,”—and at last adopted the attitude of all sensible persons.
From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew
She had determined, the letter said, to put the sea coast into a "fencible arraye of warre."
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
