Meaning

2 senses
  1. The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.

  2. (figuratively)A narrow strip of territory that a municipality annexes to surround unincorporated territory that the municipality wants to reserve to itself for future growth.

Origin

From fence + line.

From fence + line.

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Forms

plural: fencelines

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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