DCHP-3

dog-leg fence

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a type of rail fence.

Quotations

1953
One of the strangest and least familiar of the rail fences is the dog-leg which has been recorded from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Australia . . . its essential feature is a series of crossed posts, set in post holes, with rails laid in the crotches.