snake fence
a fence, zigzag in plan, made of rails resting across one another at an angle.
Origin of snake fence
1- Also called Virginia fence, Virginia rail fence, worm fence.
Words Nearby snake fence
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How to use snake fence in a sentence
Longstreet was seated on the top of a snake-fence, in the edge of the wood, and looking perfectly calm and unperturbed.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.We had arrived in front of some bars which were laid across an opening in the snake fence that ran along one side of the road.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall SaundersThe lane was a grassy sward, cut with two wagon-wheel tracks, and with a picturesque snake fence on either side.
Corporal Cameron | Ralph ConnorThey went down the road to the swamp, climbed the snake fence, followed the path to the old trail and then turned south upon it.
A Girl Of The Limberlost | Gene Stratton PorterI felt mighty shaky once, I rickalect; dat time yalla m'latta man shootin' at me f 'um behime a snake-fence.
Seventeen | Booth Tarkington
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