a fence made of split rails, such as a snake fence.
See also: snake fence
- 1958  Perpendicularly or diagonally laid logs of farm homes and buildings and split-rail fences do more than identify Bulkley and Endako Valleys as frontier country.
- 1964  Farmers just outside Toronto drove their sleighs right across those picturesque split-rail fences that caught all the snow. . . .