英和和英

名詞

buck fence (複数形 buck 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.
   • 1922, Honoré Willsie, Judith of the Godless Valley, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Chapter 2, p. 29,^[1]

     […] he sat down weakly on the lower bar of the buck fence and burst into tears […]

   • 2000, Deborah Able, Hate Groups, Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Chapter 5, p. 90, caption,^[2]

     A stone cross was erected in March 1999 to mark the spot where Matthew Shepard was found lashed to a buck fence on the high plains east of Laramie, Wyoming.

同意語

• jackleg fence