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fenceless

  • a word derived from fence.
    fence
    noun
    a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of vertical posts connected with horizontal sections of sturdy material or materials, as wood, metal, vinyl, or wire, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.

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Born and bred on a fenceless expanse of golden grass and red dirt in the Australian outback, where horses, dingoes and crocodiles share the land, these animals are wild enough to charge a chopper.

From New York Times Nov. 30, 2022

She found refuge first in the countryside, riding horses bareback across the fenceless prairie, and then in the air.

From Washington Post Apr. 22, 2019

Most of the Kachin villagers have fled to several areas along the fenceless border including Mai Jai Yang in Kachin state, and Nongdao, Longchuan and Leiji on the Chinese side.

From Reuters Feb. 10, 2012

In October, 1884, Brooks House, newly built in a fenceless hilltop meadow that looked northwest to the blue New Hampshire hills, was ready for its first students.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cottage was a lone place on the top of a bare heath, with the bleak sea in front, and the purple hills behind, and with a fenceless cart-track leading up to it.

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine