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snake fence en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) A zigzag fence built from interlocking split logs or young trees, not secured with nails.
   • Snake fences were extravagant in land and in wood, but wood and land were cheaper in Canada in early days than were nails and hinges. 1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
   • A breaker of green uniforms plunges down the slope of Lime Ridge, curls around sugar bushes and thickets, cascades over stone walls and snake fences, as the Fenians come howling down on them, rifles snapping. 2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 22, in A Good Man, McClelland & Stewart:

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Synonyms

worm fence · Virginia fence · Virginia rail fence · split rail fence