picket-fence

picket fence

noun
a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
Also called paling, paling fence.


Origin:
1790–1800, Americanism
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Picket-fence is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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