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worm 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
- 1824 What is termed the Virginia worm fence, formed by split rails laid in a zig zag position with the ends of the rail crossing each other occupies too much ground, and requires an enormous number of rails.
- 1954 It annoyed him now to see . . . the staked zig-zag of Alex Neill's worm fence.
- 1824 What is termed the Virginia worm fence, formed by split rails laid in a zig zag position with the ends of the rail crossing each other occupies too much ground, and requires an enormous number of rails.