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Definition of Picket fence
1. Noun. A fence made of upright pickets.
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
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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