fenceline
nounEtymology From fence + line.
1
The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
- The farmers up here will have a lot of cleaning to do along the fencelines before they bale hay next June or they will be baling kindling.2007 January 1, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Edges and Order”, in New York Times:
2
Figuratively A narrow strip of territory that a municipality annexes to surround unincorporated territory that the municipality wants to reserve to itself for future growth.
- Related terms
- strip annexation, proclamation boundary