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stump fence

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1845, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Yeah. Um, what kinds of fences did you have back then? Speaker: Well, ah, mostly- there was some stump fences. I never had to do with any of that. Some stone fences, loud fences. Rail, crooked rail. Wire. Wire came in in my day. They were all- were all loud fences prior to that, pretty much, I mean I helped to fence our place on with the wire.
Fences made by placing tree stumps next to one another, then interlocking the roots of tree stumps so they face outwards, and then positioning the trunks inwards.
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Speaker: Well, where there was pine- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Yeah, where there was pine they tried to- upset them- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Up for to make fences. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. And there is an odd one through the country yet of pine stump fences. Interviewer: I've seen them in some parts. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Did they use the stones as well for that purpose?
Fences made by placing tree stumps next to one another, then interlocking the roots of tree stumps so they face outwards, and then positioning the trunks inwards.
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Speaker: Stone fence. Or a stone wall. We called them both. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Yeah. There used to be lots of them too. And then we used to have the stump fence. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: They'd- you took the stumps out of the ground and they'll clean up the ground, they turn them up you-see on their edge and ah they'd stick it way up in there.
Fences made by placing tree stumps next to one another, then interlocking the roots of tree stumps so they face outwards, and then positioning the trunks inwards.
Interviewer: But you- you didn't have many of that sort of around here being made? Speaker: No, not at nighttime anyway. No. 'Cause they'd rot down you-see? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. But they call them a stump fence. Interviewer: It would be mainly rock fences or um snake fences. Speaker: Yeah.
Fences made by placing tree stumps next to one another, then interlocking the roots of tree stumps so they face outwards, and then positioning the trunks inwards.
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Interviewer: Tell me about uh, the kinds of fences that people used in those days to separate their fields, it seems to me that there was a variety of kinds of fences. Speaker: Yes, at first, I guess the first fences were log fe- were uh- were stump fences and where- any place where there were a lot of rocks that they had in the fields that they had to uh, to tear off the rocks they put up stone fences and then from- from that they went to uh- to the log fences ...
Fences made by placing tree stumps next to one another, then interlocking the roots of tree stumps so they face outwards, and then positioning the trunks inwards.