worm-fence

Forsaking the main road, they crossed Wild Water on a narrow bridge and continued along an ancient, rutted road that ran beside an equally ancient worm-fence of split redwood rails.

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After discussing for a few minutes the probabilities of such a course on the part of the enemy, I thought McCook should be made acquainted with what was going on, so Sill and I went back to see him at his headquarters, not far from the Griscom House, where we found him sleeping on some straw in the angle of a worm-fence.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Time was, when safe in a saddle, he had thrown reins to the wind "en allowed that critter a spell of fancy worm-fence buckin ', but a-ridin' a auto wuz dangerous business."

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

He had evidently just gotten over the "worm-fence" into the road, out of the path which led zigzag across the "old field" and was lost to sight in the dense growth of sassafras.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

He wondered, as they walked along, if Potter and the boys at the stables had framed a rodeo spectacle for themselves and were to witness some worm-fence bucking by midget contestants.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

The same is the case with respect to leaping: there being in many places no gates, the snake or worm-fence

George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

The "citizen-soldier" knew no more about "dressing the line," than about dressing himself, and the front of his company presented as many inequalities as a "worm-fence."

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

The sight of the man brought George before him, living enough to wring his heart He knocked a log off the worm-fence, and stepped over into the field.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

After discussing for a few minutes the probabilities of such a course on the part of the enemy, I thought McCook should be made acquainted with what was going on, so Sill and I went back to see him at his headquarters, not far from the Griscom House, where we found him sleeping on some straw in the angle of a worm-fence.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

But I was away, striding over the cabbage-patch and climbing the worm-fence that shut in the estate of Hiram.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various