worm fence

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The fences were of various descriptions: hedge, wicker, some few pannel, and the old fashioned zig-zag, known as the "Virginia worm fence"—the hedge and worm fence being the most common.

From The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Delany, Martin Robison

The land was a great series of wooded parks such as one might have found in Merry England, except that worm fence and stone wall took the place of hedge along the highways.

From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John

When used in this way the lines of fence may be 300 to 600 yds. long, in plan like a worm fence, with the blockhouse at the reëntrant angles.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)

Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn.

From The Flower of the Chapdelaines by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

The old worm fence was distinctly American; it had a zigzag series of chestnut rails, with stakes of twisted cedar saplings which were sometimes "chunked" by moss-covered boulders just peeping from the earth.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse