sunk fence
noun
: a ditch with a retaining wall used to divide lands without defacing a landscape
called also ha-ha
Word History
First Known Use
1745, in the meaning defined above
sunk fences
noun
as in trenches
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- trenches
- sheughs
- ditches
- fosses
- moats
- gullies
- stanks
- gutters
- culverts
- drains
- ravines
- dikes
- troughs
- gulleys
- draws
- drills
- furrows
- ha-has
- acequias
- kennels
- cover letter
- cover memory
- cover note
- cover one's ass
- cover one's tracks
- cover one's/someone's ass
- cover oneself in glory
- cover oneself in/with glory
- cover oneself with glory
- cover paper
- cover plate
- cover point
- cover shot
- cover someone's ass
- cover spray
- cover stone
- cover story
- cover symbol
- cover text
- cover the ground
- cover title
- cover type
- cover up
- cover-all
- cover-shame