WORD OF THE DAY
fence
As soon as the mother entered the house, he pocketed the phone, scaled the fence at a low corner, crossed to the surprised boy in a few steps, and placed a rag over his face.
In the southernhemisphere the icepack forms a nearly continuous fence around the Antarctic continent.
"It's here, close by," said she and, running across the yard, opened a gate in a wooden fence and, stopping, pointed out to him a small wooden wing of the house, which was burning brightly and fiercely.
Josh vaulted the fence and raced up the hill, only to stop in surprise as Alex emerged from the trees riding a horse colored enough like Ed to be his twin.
The buffalo stood at the fence, watching them – probably wondering why they couldn't go along.
- The Zulus live in kraals, circular enclosures with, generally, a ring fence inside forming a cattle pen.
In the cultivated upland valleys all over Arabia the Zizyphus j ujuba, called by some travellers lotus, grows to a large tree; its thorny branches are clipped yearly and used to fence the cornfields among which it grows.