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fence rail

n. a rail that is split from a log [syn: split rail]

Usage examples of "fence rail".

They leaned over the fence rail to shake hands with Scarlett when she called and they laughed at her rickety wagon, their black eyes bitter, for they were laughing at themselves as well as her.

At the end of the evening, she saw Dagny in a corner of the ballroom, sitting on a balustrade as if it were a fence rail, her legs dangling under the chiffon skirt as if she were dressed in slacks.

Old Nathan set the bucket down and hung the saddle over a fence rail.

I was digging my fingers into the wood of the fence rail as hard as I could—.

I was digging my fingers into the wood of the fence rail as hard as I could&mdash.

The back of his old sheepskin coat was ripped open, the flesh beneath it gashed and torn, and she remembered the snapping of the fence rail as his frail body was hurled against it.

It had been very strange, and just a bit frightening the first time, to stand in the paddock with such a big, strong beast, without even a single fence rail to protect her if he should take it into his head to dislike her.

He stepped back and turned away from me, groping for the fence rail before him as though blind.

Like a fence rail again, or maybe a sewer pipe, striking against the front of the shin at an oblique angle.

Meria had leaned on the fence rail as Varaconn moved around the paddock.