10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNAKE FENCE»
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WORM FENCES The "worm" fence (variously and regionally also known as the
Virginia rail fence, crooked rail fence, zigzag fence, snake fence, and rick-rack)
may well be a genuine American innovation. In any case, it was certainly one of
the ...
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The Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest
The defendants allege that the County Court Judge had no jurisdiction to vary the
award by changing the locality — the locus — of the line as found by the surveyor
; they assert that, in fact, the true line was a snake fence which had been ...
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Looking for Old Ontario: Two Centuries of Landscape Change
Contractors for one line were instructed to build a snake fence 'with a worm of
four feet.''4 Such a shallow angle - more than one hundred and twenty degrees,
compared with the ideal of ninety degrees - was hardly adequate, considering
that ...
Thomas F. McIlwraith,
1997
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Landscape with Reptile: Rattlesnakes in an Urban World
The snake fence at Yankee Heights was to have sent a message: This far, and no
farther. Like the crumbling colonial-era stone walls running through the woods
nearby, the fence would have expressed the belief that there is room in the Hills ...
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The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello
In many cases the snake fence functioned to keep domestic animals within the
orchard, especially hogs that were nourished by fallen peaches." Although
Jefferson's "monstrous large" orchard fence required a lock and key, it was not
enough ...
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A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres
I examined a hundred styles of fencing-stockade fencing, picket fencing, and
even live fences made from privet hedges- but the only fence I fell in love with
was the Irish snake fence. Built with split rails without vertical supports, the rails ...
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One Hundred and One Patchwork Patterns: Quilt Name Stories, ...
The North Wind, Hosanna, World without End, Delectable Mountains, Rose of
Sharon, Wagon Tracks, Road to California, Snake Fence, Love Apple, Arkansas
Traveler, Oklahoma Boomer, Kansas Troubles, Cactus Basket, Prairie Queen, ...
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Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
2.yank, jerk. snake/ gokilla snake Aus.col. go to lavatory. snake/ wriggle likea cut
snakeAus. fuss (about), dodge. snakebite Br. alcoholic drink thatis half lager and
half cider. snakebitten Am., Can. col. unlucky. snake fence, also Virginia fence ...
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Farm Fences and Gates: Build and Repair Fences to Keep ...
The zigzags in a snake fence can take up lots of land. compact fence but also
added considerable labor in digging postholes. Innovation in rail fencing
dropped off once cheap, plentiful, reliable barbed wire became available. Split-
rail fences ...
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Fence Building and Apple Cider: Memories from New ...
Soon came the rail fence or snake fence. They were so named due to the
resemblance of its zigzag line to the shape of a snake. Some natives referred to
them as the Virginia fence, named for the common Virginia Pictured is the upper
pasture ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNAKE FENCE»
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Do Not Try This at Home: Pregnant California Mom Sucks out …
Experts caution that this is the wrong way to deal with poisonous snake bites. ... Slanting your snake fence outward about a 30-degree angle will help.". «Gospel Herald, Jun 15»
Rattlesnakes make annual return to VC
Snake sightings in the back county last week and the recent warm days in the Valley ... Slanting your snake fence outward about a 30-degree angle will help. «Valley Roadrunner, Mar 14»
Land preparation, environmental mitigation underway for DRIC bridge
Sebastian Hrubik, left, and his brother Christopher Hrubik, both of Jay Fencing, walk along a trench where a snake fence will be installed on Sandwich Street ... «Windsor Star, Aug 13»
Snakenado: CNN Uses Unbelievable Stock Photo In Report On …
This week appears to be Snake Week, as a second story in as many days ... to start building a snake fence, and in a telephone interview with famous Columbus ... «Mediaite, Aug 13»
Secret hideouts being built for harmless eastern foxsnakes
“I know some people have said just move it,” Kowalski said of the snake hangouts. ... Windsor/Essex Parkway showing a snake fence along Huron Church Road. «Windsor Star, Jul 13»
DFG reminds the public to be rattlesnake safe when outdoors
Although most snakes in the state are harmless, the Department of Fish and Game ... Slanting your snake fence outward about a 30-degree angle will help. «Lake County News, Apr 12»
Beware of snakes all summer long
California has a variety of snakes, most of which are benign. ... Slanting your snake fence outward at about a 30-degree angle will help. Vegetation should be ... «Napa Valley Register, May 11»
Snake fence in Bachelor Heights
YOU ASKED: A while back, you had an article about the snake fences being built for a new housing development in Bachelor Heights. There hasn't been much ... «Kamloops Daily News, Apr 10»
Snakes make permanent home of Manitoba complex
How about snakes on a toaster, snakes in a laundry hamper or snakes on a ... the holes where they're crawling in or put up a snake fence around the property.". «Globe and Mail, Sep 09»