U.S. [SNAKE sb.] A fence made of roughly split rails or poles laid in a zigzag fashion; a worm or zigzag fence.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., VII. i. (1849), 303. The American regions of stumps and stones, log-houses and snake-fences.
1864. Charlotte M. Yonge, Trial, II. 173. An untidy desolate-looking region, with a rude snake fence.
1887. I. R., Lady’s Ranche Life in Montana, 61. They are called ‘snake’ fences because they don’t go straight, but form an angle, where the poles overlap each other.
