snake fence

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of snake fence

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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snake fence

Here, for the first time in Canada, I observed hedges of the Canadian thorn--a great improvement on the old snake fence of rough split timber which prevails all through the colony.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

After a mile and a half we came to the corner of a snake fence.

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward

On the rude snake fence at the back of the pasture sat a boy, with a roll of birch bark in his hands.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

On either side of the lane, cutting it off from the fields, straggled a zigzag snake fence, with milk-weed, tansy, and mullein growing raggedly in its corners.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston

Over the snake fence massed the clover, red and white.

From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Connor, Ralph