snow fence


noun
  1. a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.

Origin of snow fence

1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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How to use snow fence in a sentence

  • For our offspring ought to be the snow-fences along the wind-harried rails of matrimony.

    The Prairie Child | Arthur Stringer

British Dictionary definitions for snow fence

snow fence

noun
  1. a portable wire-and-paling fence erected to prevent snow from drifting across a road, drive, ski run, etc

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