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buck fence en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US) A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side.
    • A stone cross was erected in March 1999 to mark the spot where Matthew Shepard was found lashed to a buck fence on the high plains east of Laramie, Wyoming. 2000, Deborah Able, Hate Groups, Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Chapter 5, p. 90, caption:
    • […] he sat down weakly on the lower bar of the buck fence and burst into tears […] 1922, Honoré Willsie, chapter 2, in Judith of the Godless Valley, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 29:

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Synonyms

jackleg fence