ɒf/ verb to push someoneaway  He spent the morning fending offnewspaper reporters.

A structure serving as an enclosure, a barrier, or a boundary, usually made of posts or stakes joined together by boards, wire, or rails, A place where stolen goods are received and sold, transitive verb_ To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard, To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure, intransitive verb_ To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp with the smallsword, using the point only, Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc