post-and-rail fence

noun

1. a fence constructed of upright wooden posts with horizontal timber slotted through it

Example Sentences

Border Patrol, an arm of the CBP, said agents using mobile surveillance technology first spotted the group — ranging in age from 1 to 56 years old — “as they walked through the anti-vehicle post-and-rail fence that delineates the U.S.-Mexico border.”

From Fox News

I imagine a white farmhouse with black shutters, a red barn in the back, a post-and-rail fence, chickens in a coop.

From Literature

Thomas Jefferson had a small post-and-rail fence erected around the White House in 1801, according to the White House Historical Association, and a “low and heavy wrought-iron fence” went up along the north front of the building 30 years later.

From New York Times

He’s leading about 10 horses uphill at a divot-churning pace toward a stout, 4-foot-10-inch post-and-rail fence — a structure that has stood here for close to a century, ever since the most challenging horse race in America was first run across these fields.

From Washington Post

Some vacant lots in one neighborhood underwent "greening" -- which included cleaning, debris removal, planting grass and trees and installation of a low wooden post-and-rail fence.

From US News