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Noun
[edit]buck fence (plural buck fences)
- (US) A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side.
- 1922, Honoré Willsie, chapter 2, in Judith of the Godless Valley[1], New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 29:
- […] he sat down weakly on the lower bar of the buck fence and burst into tears […]
- 2000, Deborah Able, Hate Groups[2], Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Chapter 5, p. 90, caption:
- A stone cross was erected in March 1999 to mark the spot where Matthew Shepard was found lashed to a buck fence on the high plains east of Laramie, Wyoming.