subs. phr. (American).—A zig-zag rail-fence; a VIRGINIA-FENCE (q.v.).
1839–40. IRVING, Wolfert’s Roost, 251. We drove Master Jack about the common, until we had hemmed him in an angle of a WORM FENCE.
subs. phr. (American).—A zig-zag rail-fence; a VIRGINIA-FENCE (q.v.).
1839–40. IRVING, Wolfert’s Roost, 251. We drove Master Jack about the common, until we had hemmed him in an angle of a WORM FENCE.
