jackleg fenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

jackleg fence (複数形 jackleg fences)

1. (US) A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side.
   • 1985, Sally Garrett, Northern Fires, New York: Harlequin, Chapter 13, p. 213,^[1]

     The wind had blown the snow against the jackleg fences, and now only the top rail and anchor posts peeked out from beneath the drifts.

   • 1991, Patricia Nell Warren, One Is the Sun, New York: Ballantine, Chapter 36, p. 489,^[2]

     More meadowlarks were perching along the poles of the jackleg fence, their necklaced throats throbbing as they sang to the Sun.

同意語

• buck fence