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split-rail fence †
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a fence made of split rails, such as a snake fence.
See: snake fence
Quotations
1958
Perpendicularly or diagonally laid logs of farm homes and buildings and split-rail fences do more than identify Bulkley and Endako Valleys as frontier country.
1964
Farmers just outside Toronto drove their sleighs right across those picturesque split-rail fences that caught all the snow. . . .