fenceline
English
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editNoun
editfenceline (plural fencelines)
- The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
- 2007 January 1, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Edges and Order”, in New York Times[2]:
- The farmers up here will have a lot of cleaning to do along the fencelines before they bale hay next June or they will be baling kindling.
- (Oklahoma, figuratively) A narrow strip of territory that a municipality annexes to surround unincorporated territory that the municipality wants to reserve to itself for future growth.[1]