post-and-rail fence

British  

noun

1. a fence constructed of upright wooden posts with horizontal timber slotted through it

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Example Sentences

Border Patrol, an arm of the CBP, said agents using mobile surveillance technology first spotted the group — ranging in age from 1 to 56 years old — “as they walked through the anti-vehicle post-and-rail fence that delineates the U.S.-Mexico border.”

From Fox News

I imagine a white farmhouse with black shutters, a red barn in the back, a post-and-rail fence, chickens in a coop.

From Literature

Thomas Jefferson had a small post-and-rail fence erected around the White House in 1801, according to the White House Historical Association, and a “low and heavy wrought-iron fence” went up along the north front of the building 30 years later.

From New York Times

He’s leading about 10 horses uphill at a divot-churning pace toward a stout, 4-foot-10-inch post-and-rail fence — a structure that has stood here for close to a century, ever since the most challenging horse race in America was first run across these fields.

From Washington Post

Some vacant lots in one neighborhood underwent "greening" -- which included cleaning, debris removal, planting grass and trees and installation of a low wooden post-and-rail fence.

From US News