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brush fence Hist. 
an early type of fence.
See also: brushpile fence bush fence
- 1852 (1881) After they had piled and burned up the loose boughs and trunks that encumbered the space which they had marked out, they proceeded to enclose it with a brush fence, which was done by felling the trees that stood in the line of the field, and letting them fall so as to form the bottom log of the fence, which they then made of sufficient height by piling up arms of trees and brushwood.
- 1958 But probably the earliest pioneer fence of all was known as the brush fence. . . . Presiding in a Caledon township police court, the Squire ruled that a brush fence to be legal "must be forty feet wide, and damned high."
- 1852 (1881) After they had piled and burned up the loose boughs and trunks that encumbered the space which they had marked out, they proceeded to enclose it with a brush fence, which was done by felling the trees that stood in the line of the field, and letting them fall so as to form the bottom log of the fence, which they then made of sufficient height by piling up arms of trees and brushwood.