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ride fences

ride fences is the alternative form of ride fence.

Meaning of ride fence

Verb

ride fence (third-person singular simple present rides fence, present participle riding fence, simple past rode fence, past participle ridden fence)

  1. To ride alongside the fence that borders a ranch, to identify and fix any breaches.
  2. (idiomatic) To proactively maintain or police social or personal boundaries.
  3. (idiomatic, proscribed) To sit on the fence; to remain neutral on a certain topic, to not have a stance or opinion.

Forms of ride fences

third-person singular presentrides fences
present participleriding fences
pastrode fences
past participleridden fences

Questions about ride fences

What is ride fences the alternative form of?
Ride fences is the alternative form of ride fence.

Words near ride fences in the dictionary

  1. ride cymbals
  2. ride dirty
  3. ride down
  4. ride down on
  5. ride fence
  6. ride fences
  7. ride for
  8. ride hard
  9. ride hard and put away wet
  10. ride height
  11. ride heights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ride fences (page history and authors); ride fence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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