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fencerow

n. The land adjacent to a fence

Usage examples of "fencerow".

She held clutched against her belly a bunch of goldenrod and ironweed pulled from the fencerow of the cornfield.

From a fencerow he gathered a wad of the feathery leaves of yarrow and tied it to his head with the stripped stem of the plant.

She went to the fencerow and broke off stems of goldenrod and aster and filled the pail with them.

He knew his mother was watching him from the kitchen window as he left the house and walked toward the fencerow at the back of the haggard.

Dixon contemplated a fencerow sagging under the weight of kudzu, leaves silvered with morning mist.

He unwrapped the reins from the fence post where Hal had placed them and led the horse up along the fencerow toward Boundary.

Charley, Glen, and Tom, ride up the fencerow a hundred yards or so and start there.

Honeysuckle vines, colorful with laden blossoms, thickened the fencerows and the borders of the forest and climbed upon the barn.

The fencerows at roadside were lined with tiny yellow and orange blossoms, and Ada went and touched one to watch it snap apart and throw its seeds.

Since ranch animals would not graze within twenty to thirty feet of fencerows, they would become fallow.

Ranchers may periodically cut or burn these fencerows, but their value in restoring wild habitat could not be underestimated.