worm fence

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This worm fence secured to the nature lover and to wild life a strip of land eight or ten feet wide, whereon plant, bird, beast, reptile, and insect flourished and reproduced.

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

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)

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)

At the foot of the crumbling "worm" fence, skirting the edges of the wood, deep wind-drifts of russet leaves stirred mournfully.

From The Voice of the People by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

A worm fence stretched along the road broken by two battered gate posts, and between the road and the house, the lane was crossed by a second fence and gate.

From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Townsend, George Alfred