Sentence:  The Bat—they called him the Bat.nb.... He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the <WSD>fence</WSD> couldn't swear he knew his face. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.