A wire fence with widely spaced posts, allowing for quick erection.
I traced the boundaries and enclosed the land with a lightning fence
Example sentencesExamples
- I enclosed my land with a sprung lightning fence of the Australian kind.
- He shows us his lightning fence, the chief features of which are its comparative cheapness in erection and general utility.
- The new settler often found it necessary to erect lightning fences in the early periods of farming.
- Our lightning fence had translated itself further along the lane several times.
- He was on a contract for a number of miles of fencing — lightning fence, as they call it, eighty posts to the mile.