fence n
   1 An obstruction built to guide and entrap wild animals. See also SEWELL for 1811 quot.
   [1811] 1915 HOWLEY 75 On either side of the river ... fences were thrown up to prevent the deer from landing, after taking to the water. m 68-23 When the area being snared was on the side of a bog or a 'droke' (heavily wooded area) we would build a fence along the side. Openings were made in the fence every ten yards or so in order for the rabbits to get from one type of terrain to the other; they had to go through the openings in which snares were set.
   2 Comb fence-longer: horizontal rail in one type of fence. See also LONGER.
   1896 J A Folklore ix, 32 Fence-longers: ... the fence rails. T 43/7-64 [There'd be] a nail through the rail—longers they used to call them, fence-longers.

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