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rail fence

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rail fence
n.
A fence of split logs secured to stakes or laid across each other at an angle.
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Noun1.rail fencerail fence - a fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle)
fence, fencing - a barrier that serves to enclose an area
fence rail, split rail - a rail that is split from a log
snake fence, snake-rail fence, Virginia fence, worm fence - rail fence consisting of a zigzag of interlocking rails


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After the wagon containing the berry pickers had passed, he went across the field through the tall mustard weeds and climbing a rail fence peered anxiously along the road to the town.
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He leaped a ditch, went through a rail fence, and fled across a field.
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I wanted to run out through the long pasture grass, wetting my legs with the dew of it, and to climb the rail fence, and keep on through the timber and up and up over the divide so as to get a look around.
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