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fencelines

fencelines is the plural 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.

Questions about fencelines

What is fencelines the plural of?
Fencelines is the plural of fenceline.

Words near fencelines in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fencelines (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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