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Definition of tick fence in English: tick fencenoun Australian, NZ A fence erected to prevent the movement of tick-infested cattle. at Tweed Heads, a bull jumped the tick fence into Queensland Example sentencesExamples - He showed me remnants of old "tick fences" put up years ago to keep Mexican cattle from getting into Texas pastures.
- For what reason is this man here, seeing that there is a tick fence which will exist for all time?
- The rusted remains of a tick fence are still standing on the platform.
- People wandered back and forth through the gate in the tick fence hardly noticing.
- No permanent solution to this problem has even yet been found, but periodical dipping affords some measure of control, while tick fences and grids prevent the spread to non-infested areas.
- When prosperous cowmen built tick fences, many less well heeled resented it.
- At the mouth of the Tweed River the tick fence divides the two portions of the residential area.
- Both a leech and a tick have been found in my dining-room after those connected with the tick fences have been here.
- On our southern boundary runs the tick fence, which terminates between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads.
- That day we did not ascend higher than the tick fence, about half-way up the mountain.
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