fencerow

noun

fence·row ˈfen(t)s-ˌrō

: the land occupied by a fence including the uncultivated area on each side

Examples of fencerow in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The field was a half-mile wide, bordered by a fencerow on the western end, where a pile of rocks stacked over years of the plow turning them up and farm boys following in the wake, tossing them to the pile. —

Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019 The clover is gone and the fencerows are clean and mowed eliminating weeds. —

Dick Crum, Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2017

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