fenceline

English

Etymology

From fence +‎ line.

Noun

fenceline (plural fencelines)

1. 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.

2. (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.

See also

• strip annexation
• proclamation boundary