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snake fence

NOUN
rail fence with interlocking rails
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Relieved that he was not to spend the night without food and fire, he vaulted the "snake" fence, and strode to the back door.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

The next time I find myself firing from behind a snake fence I shall not crowd forward into one of the corners.

From At Plattsburg by French, Allen

Massissauga had but an untidy desolate-looking region, with a rude snake fence, all unconsecrated!

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

Longstreet was seated at the top of a snake fence at the edge of the wood, and looking perfectly calm and imperturbed.

From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon



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