sunk fence

1. 1.

   a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape

   Synonymsha-hahaw-haw

   Broaderditch

Questions about sunk fence

What does sunk fence mean?

sunk fence means "a ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape".

What is another word for sunk fence?

Close synonyms include ha-ha, haw-haw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sunk fence a common word?

sunk fence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.