snake fence

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noun
  1. a fence, zigzag in plan, made of rails resting across one another at an angle.

Origin of snake fence

1
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

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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 Saunders
  • The lane was a grassy sward, cut with two wagon-wheel tracks, and with a picturesque snake fence on either side.

    Corporal Cameron | Ralph Connor
  • They 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 Porter
  • I felt mighty shaky once, I rickalect; dat time yalla m'latta man shootin' at me f 'um behime a snake-fence.

    Seventeen | Booth Tarkington