Virginia fence

noun

1. snake fence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Virginia fence¹

An Americanism dating back to 1665–75

Example Sentences

In a large pen or 'corral' built of railroad-ties, in a manner partaking of a Virginia fence, a log-cabin, and a block fortress, were a cage of youthful bears and cages of other animals.

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But he knew that table-cloths could be washed, and Virginia fences changed in time for hedges and walls.

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Solemn shade-trees surround it; and corn and wheat fields stretch away from the Virginia fences of its spacious yard, down the slope of the hill and across the lowland to the margin of the James.

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I would go rods out of my way to get around a great bowlder, and come upon a conglomeration of big trees which had tumbled about till they made a Virginia fence fifteen feet high.

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The logs were laid one above another, to the height of four feet, intersecting at the corners of the houses like the rails of a Virginia fence.

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