post-and-rail fence

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Here, contractors and work crews remove debris, deposit topsoil, plant grass and build a post-and-rail fence.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2011

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

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

They swung back into the road, lying down along the high, stout post-and-rail fence, keeping up their fire by shooting between the rails.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

I had, by this time, crawled away, under the side of a post-and-rail fence, in the shade, and was exceeding ill.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

A stout post-and-rail fence surrounded the estate, and one of a more compact nature enclosed the more private grounds.

From Frank Oldfield Lost and Found by Wilson, Theodore P.