snake fence

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Here, for the first time in Canada, I observed hedges of the Canadian thorn--a great improvement on the old snake fence of rough split timber which prevails all through the colony.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

On either side of the lane, cutting it off from the fields, straggled a zigzag snake fence, with milk-weed, tansy, and mullein growing raggedly in its corners.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston

This was but a deserted lane, which Sydney had chosen as affording a short cut to Melissa's, and, of a sudden, the passage was closed by a snake fence eight rails high.

From A Tar-Heel Baron by Holloway, Edward Stratton

They went down the road to the swamp, climbed the snake fence, followed the path to the old trail and then turned south upon it.

From A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene

He climbed the snake fence into the woodland and splashed rapidly through the wet growth.

From The Heart of Arethusa by Fox, Frances Barton