rail fence†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several kinds of fence made of rails split from logs, as the snake fence.

Quotations

1815

The Land good and well watered ; the cleared part, of which 19 Acres are clover, &c. meadow, is mostly under a new rail fence.

1961

And on the far left-hand corner, on a rail fence, was a smaller sign. . . .