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snow fence

noun

  1. a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.


snow fence

noun

  1. a portable wire-and-paling fence erected to prevent snow from drifting across a road, drive, ski run, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of snow fence1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences

I should have taken my valise and a rubber door mat from the sleeping-car, and crawled into the lee of a snow fence for the night.

About the only fence is the snow fence, used to prevent the snow from drifting into the cuts.

Everything so neatly laid out in rows of slats like a snow fence.

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