fencing vs militant

fencing

noun
  • Receiving and buying of stolen goods. 

  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing). 

  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure. 

militant

noun
  • Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. 

  • An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. 

adj
  • Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. 

  • Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. 

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