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Sunk fence   /səŋk fɛns/   Listen
Sunk fence

noun
1.
A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape.  Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw.






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"Sunk fence" Quotes from Famous Books



... his whip, and turning off the main avenue, drew up at the bottom of one of the lawns, before a sunk fence. A servant came hurrying down to the pony's head, and together Pauline and he made their way across the short green turf to where Lady Mary was dispensing tea. Rochester's face suddenly darkened. Seated next to his wife, with Lois on the other ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim



Words linked to "Sunk fence" :   haw-haw, ditch



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