Definitions

snake fence

NOUN

rail fence with interlocking rails

Synonyms

WEAK

Virginia fence Virginia rail fence worm fence zigzag fence

Example Sentences

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The lad shrank back to a recess of the snake fence.

From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily

After a mile and a half we came to the corner of a snake fence.

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward

These two kinds of humour, the middle-class jokes about courting between lovers seated on a snake fence, or about Sunday schools p. 185and quaint answers there given to Biblical questions, leave us cold.

From Lost Leaders by Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)

He returned quickly and said that there was no sign of an ambush, but the snake fence was there and the vine-covered house also.

From The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys by De Morgan, John

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