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Definition of Fence mending
1. Noun. Social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics). "They moved forward from a period of fence mending to substantive changes in the country"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fence Mending
Literary usage of Fence mending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1890)
"... that he left his fishing-pole at about ten o'clock, and went west along the
south side of the fence, mending the fence, pulling the bashes from a slough ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Nevertheless he ordered his ranger to knock off fence mending for the present.
By two o'clock Thorne pushed back his chair and stretched his arms over his ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1889)
"For the latter purpose they are singularly fitted, and the fence- mending being
done in the dry season, the stems are so ..."
4. Marianne Moore: Vision Into Verse by Patricia C. Willis (1987)
"And some writers needed fence-mending after Thayer had alienated them. Pound was
one of the latter. He had written the Paris letter in the first years of ..."
5. History of American Literature by Leonidas Warren Payne (1919)
"... he was so overcome-with emotion that for some minutes he could not go on with
the task of fence mending in which he was at the moment engaged. ..."
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