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fence line

fence line is the alternative form of fenceline.

Meaning of fenceline

Noun

fenceline (plural fencelines)

  1. The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
    • The farmers up here will have a lot of cleaning to do along the fencelines before they bale hay next June or they will be baling kindling.2007 January 1, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Edges and Order”, in New York Times
  2. (figuratively, Oklahoma) A narrow strip of territory that a municipality annexes to surround unincorporated territory that the municipality wants to reserve to itself for future growth.

Forms of fence line

pluralfence lines

Questions about fence line

What is fence line the alternative form of?
Fence line is the alternative form of fenceline.

Words near fence line in the dictionary

  1. fence
  2. fence hopper
  3. fence hoppers
  4. Fence Houses
  5. fence in
  6. fence line
  7. fence lines
  8. fence lizard
  9. fence lizards
  10. fence month
  11. fence months

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fence line (page history and authors); fenceline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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