jackleg fence
English
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editjackleg fence (plural jackleg fences)
- (US) A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side.
- 1985, Sally Garrett, chapter 13, in Northern Fires[1], New York: Harlequin, page 213:
- The wind had blown the snow against the jackleg fences, and now only the top rail and anchor posts peeked out from beneath the drifts.
- 1991, Patricia Nell Warren, chapter 36, in One Is the Sun[2], New York: Ballantine, page 489:
- More meadowlarks were perching along the poles of the jackleg fence, their necklaced throats throbbing as they sang to the Sun.