split-rail

split rail

noun
a wooden rail split lengthwise from a log and commonly used in rustic rail and post fencing.

Origin:
1820–30; Americanism

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split rail

noun
a rail that is split from a log 
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Split-rail is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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.
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