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fenceline

fenceline noun: the path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.

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.

fenceline meaning in Tamil

fenceline in Tamil

வேலிக்கோடு

Forms of fenceline

pluralfencelines
alternative formfence line

Origin of fenceline

From fence + line.

Questions about fenceline

What does fenceline mean?
Fenceline means the path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
What is fenceline in Tamil?
Fenceline in Tamil is வேலிக்கோடு. See Fenceline meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fenceline?
Fenceline is a noun.
What is the plural of fenceline?
The plural of fenceline is fencelines.

Words near fenceline in the dictionary

  1. fenceless
  2. fencelessness
  3. fencelet
  4. fencelets
  5. fencelike
  6. fenceline
  7. fencelines
  8. fencepole
  9. fencepoles
  10. fencepost
  11. fencepost error

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fenceline (page history and authors); fenceline (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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