Definition of Picket fence

1. Noun. A fence made of upright pickets.

Exact synonyms: Paling
Generic synonyms: Fence, Fencing
Terms within: Pale, Picket

Definition of Picket fence

1. Noun. A simple fence made from wooden pickets, connected by horizontal bars. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picket Fence

picker's nodules
pickerel
pickerel frog
pickerel weed
pickerels
pickerelweed
pickerelweed family
pickerelweeds
pickeries
pickering
pickeringite
pickers
pickery
picket
picket boat
picket fence (current term)
picket fences
picket line
picket pool
picket ship
picketboat
picketboats
picketed
picketee
picketees
picketer
picketers
picketing
pickets
pickfest

Literary usage of Picket fence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"The Middaugh and Wilcox machine made wire-and-picket fence. ... machine made diamond mesh, and wire-and-picket, fence. But the diamond mesh fabric was old, ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... and wire-and-picket, fence. But the diamond mesh fabric was old, as shown, not only in the Davisson patent, but in many others antedating those in suit, ..."

3. Farm Buildings: A Compilation of Plans for General Farm Barns, Cattle Barns by Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago, Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago) (1911)
"LENGTH OF PANEL 10 A PORTABLE picket fence. fig. 530 is of a portable picket worm fence. The rails should be 2" x 3" or 2" x 4" and the length the builder ..."

4. The California Earthquake of 1906 by John Casper Branner, Charles Derleth, Grove Karl Gilbert, Stephen Taber, Fusakichi Ōmori, Harold Wellman Fairbanks, Mary Hunter Austin (1907)
"picket fence Was in One Continuous Line. Photograph Shows Short Section Put in to Fill up Offset by Land on the West Side. Its movement is properly from ..."

5. Full Proof of the Ministry: A Sequel to The Boy who was Trained Up to be a by John Nicholas Norton (1855)
"The Methodists have shown their ambitious spirit by putting up a high picket-fence, with two green gates; the Baptists, more aspiring still, have erected a ..."

6. The Common Pleas Reporter: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the County by Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1885)
"Myron J. Clark, a witness for the plaintiff, testified: " In 1855 or 1856 there was a board fence further out than the picket fence which father built. ..."

7. Rustless Coatings: Corrosion and Electrolysis of Iron and Steel by Matthew Patterson Wood (1904)
"The cuts arc reproductions from a photograph of a picket fence, each alternate picket being painted with the different leads at the same time and by the ..."

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