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Definition of snake fence in English: snake fence(also snake-rail fence) noun North American A fence made of roughly split rails or poles joined in a zigzag pattern with their ends crossing. 〈北美〉蛇形栅栏 Example sentencesExamples - The roads are much improved, and snake-rail fences have been replaced with barbed wire.
- Eventually post-and-rail fences began to displace snake fences because they required less timber and wasted less land; however, they were far more labor intensive to build.
- A big advantage of the snake fences was that they could be moved but I guess after a while they were considered a waste of space and got converted to straight rail like ours.
- Nowadays, the old cedar snake fences have been replaced on most working farms by electric fences, or various kinds of wire.
- His proposal also calls for clear-cutting the overgrown remnant of a 30-acre cornfield that figured prominently in the battle, and installing a 500-foot snake fence along a historic fenceline.
Definition of snake fence in US English: snake fence(also snake-rail fence) nounˈsnāk ˌfens North American A fence made of roughly split rails or poles joined in a zigzag pattern with their ends crossing. 〈北美〉蛇形栅栏 Example sentencesExamples - A big advantage of the snake fences was that they could be moved but I guess after a while they were considered a waste of space and got converted to straight rail like ours.
- Nowadays, the old cedar snake fences have been replaced on most working farms by electric fences, or various kinds of wire.
- The roads are much improved, and snake-rail fences have been replaced with barbed wire.
- His proposal also calls for clear-cutting the overgrown remnant of a 30-acre cornfield that figured prominently in the battle, and installing a 500-foot snake fence along a historic fenceline.
- Eventually post-and-rail fences began to displace snake fences because they required less timber and wasted less land; however, they were far more labor intensive to build.
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