sunk fence


noun

a wall or other barrier set in a ditch to divide lands without marring the landscape.

Origin of sunk fence

First recorded in 1755–65

Words nearby sunk fence

Example sentences from the Web for sunk fence

  • Footsteps fell on their ears, on the path which threaded the lawn just beyond the sunk-fence.

    Huntingtower |John Buchan

British Dictionary definitions for sunk fence

sunk fence

noun

a ditch, one side of which is made into a retaining wall so as to enclose an area of land while remaining hidden in the total landscape Also called: ha-ha