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snake rail-fence
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a kind of rail fence in which the rails, often of split cedar, in panels of six or eight, interlock with each other in a zigzag pattern, being sometimes supported by crossed-rail uprights.
Quotations
1918
And then when they looked down those first winrows which looked like a "snake (rail) fence," their chagrin was complete, but they soon learned the trick of keeping them straight.
1958
One of the early Canadian fences most popular in the east was the snake rail fence.