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split rail
noun
- a wooden rail split lengthwise from a log and commonly used in rustic rail and post fencing.
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of split rail1
1820–30; Americanism
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To get there, we drove past split rail fences, fields of black-eyed Susans and grassy fields alternated with acres of burned trees and black stumps.
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They split rails and made harnesses and drove ambulances.
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Hedges of honeysuckle—twisting, strangling vines—had grown over what must once have been a split rail fence between the house and barn.
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A cedar split rail fence borders the 1/3 acre lot and encompasses several features for young explorers.
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I scrambled over the white split rail fence and carefully picked my way past the sharpened stakes of the interior fence.
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