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split rail
noun
- a wooden rail split lengthwise from a log and commonly used in rustic rail and post fencing.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of split rail1
1820–30; Americanism
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Example Sentences
He stood one afternoon lazily hanging on to a split rail fence, gazing idly over the fields at a distant wood.
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Page 256, "worm" is correct as printed as it is another name for a split rail fence.
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Mrs. Robin wanted it on the end of the second rail from the top of the split-rail fence.
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There was a grass-field, enclosed by split-rail fence, and manured.
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The graves of about a dozen others who had worked and died at Victoire were surrounded by a low split-rail fence.
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