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ripgut fences

ripgut fences is the plural of ripgut fence.

Meaning of ripgut fence

Noun

ripgut fence (plural ripgut fences)

  1. (US) A type of fence made of criss-crossed pairs of wood poles, which was fairly common in western rangeland before the introduction of barbed wire.

Questions about ripgut fences

What is ripgut fences the plural of?
Ripgut fences is the plural of ripgut fence.

Words near ripgut fences in the dictionary

  1. ripes
  2. ripest
  3. ripgut
  4. ripgut brome
  5. ripgut fence
  6. ripgut fences
  7. ripgut grass
  8. Riphaean
  9. Riphagen
  10. Riphagens
  11. Riphean

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