sunk fence
a wall or other barrier set in a ditch to divide lands without marring the landscape.
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How to use sunk fence in a sentence
In the garden stood Rose, on the edge of the sunk fence dividing the Rectory domain from the cornfield.
Robert Elsmere | Mrs. Humphry WardClose by was the sunk fence and the tiny rustic bridge—only a plank or two—which spanned it.
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk | Baroness OrczyHe had come to her as usual from out the gloom, just as she was about to cross the little bridge which spanned the sunk fence.
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk | Baroness OrczyIts garden surrounded by a sunk fence could be seen, and the figure of a lady walking in it.
The Coryston Family | Mrs. Humphry WardThere she made for a huge oak, which gloomed in the moonlight by the sunk fence parting the grounds.
Mary Marston | George MacDonald
British Dictionary definitions for sunk fence
a ditch, one side of which is made into a retaining wall so as to enclose an area of land while remaining hidden in the total landscape: Also called: ha-ha
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