Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FENCE, v.t. [fens.]

1. To inclose with a hedge, wall, or any thing that prevents the escape or entrance of cattle; to cure by an inclosure. In New England, farmers, for the most part, fence their lands with posts and rails, or with, stone walls. In England, lands are usually fenced with hedges and ditches. He hath fenced my way that I can not pass. Job xix.
2. To guard; to fortify. So much of adder's wisdom I have learnt, / To fence my car against thy sorceries. Milton.