DCHP-1 Online

Indian fence

• 1 Obs. two converging lines of fencing, as poles, piles of turf or brush, etc., used in early times in deer drives.

  See also: deer drive  deer hedge  

  • 1827  (1911)  But what arrests the attention most . . . is the extent of the Indian fences to entrap deer.

• 2 a kind of fish weir.

  See also: barrier  

  • 1956  That afternoon Moses and Eli laid out stringers and poles and started to nail their Indian fence together.