worm fence

noun

1. Chiefly Midland U.S. snake fence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of worm fence¹

An Americanism dating back to 1645–55

Example Sentences

He would mount to the top pole of the worm fence dividing the fields from the woods.

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He was the strongest man I ever knew, and has been known to lift a man of his own weight and throw him over a worm fence.

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One of the figures in the foreground was a dead Confederate boy, lying in the angle of a worm fence.

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Allemand, the pilot, had lost his head and was steering a course crooked as a worm fence.

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Meanwhile Si had strolled over a little ways to where an old worm fence had stood when the regiment went into camp.

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