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Hedge

A thicket of bushes usually thorn bushes especially such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land and also any sort of shrubbery as evergreens planted in a line

Land-reeve

or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every

Dangerous machinery

'Factories':-- All dangerous parts of the machinery and every part of the mill gearing must either be securely fenced, or be in such position, or of such construction as to be equally safe to every person employed

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Boundaries

be (a) physical, or (b) national and supported by documentary or other evidence. (a) may consist of walls, fences, hedges or ditches, and the presumption is that the outer line along the top line of the ditch

Machinery

see Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 11, as amended. As to the fencing of machinery in factories, see FACTORY. Chimneys which are merely solid structure built upon the ground whose part

Singlestick

In England and Scotland a cudgel used in fencing or fighting a backsword

Ditch

A trench made in the earth by digging particularly a trench for draining wet land for guarding or fencing inclosures or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress In the latter sense it is called

Maintain

Maintain, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the fencing, covering in, repairing, restoring and cleansing of a protected monument, and the doing of any act which may

Fencer

One who fences one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil

Foinery

Thrusting with the foil fencing with the point as distinguished from broadsword play

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