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pick·et fence

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. picket fence, palingnoun

    a fence made of upright pickets

Wiktionary

  1. picket fencenoun

    A simple fence made from wooden pickets, connected by horizontal bars.

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  1. Picket fence

    Picket fences are a type of fence often used decoratively for domestic boundaries, distinguished by their evenly spaced vertical boards, the pickets, attached to horizontal rails. Until the introduction of advertising on fences in the 1980s, cricket fields were usually surrounded by picket fences, giving rise to the expression rattling the pickets for a ball hit firmly into the fence.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of picket fence in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of picket fence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of picket fence in a Sentence

  1. Aimee Bartek-Regnier:

    My white picket fence, my trellis, everything you'd identify my house with was gone, we're just waiting on a picture so that we can have our closure that way. I've known since Friday that our house was gone.


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