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snake rail-fence 
a kind of rail fence in which the rails, often of split cedar, in panels of six or eight, interlock with each other in a zigzag pattern, being sometimes supported by crossed-rail uprights.
See also: rail fence snake fence
- 1918 And then when they looked down those first winrows which looked like a "snake (rail) fence," their chagrin was complete, but they soon learned the trick of keeping them straight.
- 1958 One of the early Canadian fences most popular in the east was the snake rail fence.
- 1918 And then when they looked down those first winrows which looked like a "snake (rail) fence," their chagrin was complete, but they soon learned the trick of keeping them straight.