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View synonyms for snake fence

snake fence

noun

  1. a fence, zigzag in plan, made of rails resting across one another at an angle.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of snake fence1

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

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Example Sentences

Longstreet was seated on the top of a snake-fence, in the edge of the wood, and looking perfectly calm and unperturbed.

We had arrived in front of some bars which were laid across an opening in the snake fence that ran along one side of the road.

The lane was a grassy sward, cut with two wagon-wheel tracks, and with a picturesque snake fence on either side.

They went down the road to the swamp, climbed the snake fence, followed the path to the old trail and then turned south upon it.

I felt mighty shaky once, I rickalect; dat time yalla m'latta man shootin' at me f 'um behime a snake-fence.

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