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chicken wire

noun

  1. a light, wire netting having a large, hexagonal mesh, used especially as fencing.


chicken wire

noun

  1. wire netting with a hexagonal mesh


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chicken wire1

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

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Example Sentences

They focused on PAHs—compounds assembled from carbon atoms fused together into rings that slightly resemble chicken wire.

It is made of chicken wire and neoprene, and was donated to Jones by a fan.

So Bumper found himself alone in the garden, or rather in a pen shut off from the rest of the garden by stout chicken wire.

These trees are planted two feet apart in the row and are tied up to a trellis of chicken wire.

For artillery cover this was knotted in fish nets and chicken wire.

Six-foot chicken wire will be high enough to enclose the run.

Viewed close up the completed article looks to be exactly what it is—chicken wire festooned thickly with gaudy rags.

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