snow fence


Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

snow fence

n.
Temporary fencing composed of thin upright slats wired together, used to prevent snow from drifting onto walks or roads.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

snow fence

n
(Physical Geography) a portable wire-and-paling fence erected to prevent snow from drifting across a road, drive, ski run, etc
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

snow′ fence`


n.
a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive ?
It's to But on his final run, he was catapulted into a fall after his skis got caught, and as he haul landed, he hit the back of his neck on a snow fence post.
To encourage that, perhaps a snow fence strategically placed in the landscape is in order.
The study identified key factors, such as height and porosity (the amount of open space within the snow fence), for successful implementation that have implications for the design, feasibility, and effectiveness of living snow fences.
Louis Park erected a snow fence around the entire construction site, on the advice of the EPA.
"Wherever there was a snow fence in a wheat field, the wheat would grow much better even in a wet year due to the nitrogen in the snow."--Trinity Dwain Holmes, via Facebook
As I planned, when he walked by me at 20 yards, he went behind two trees just in front of me where I'd hung a four-foot section of wooden snow fence, decorated with trimmed cottonwood branches.
This past season, a temporary snow fence was put up in that part of the field, but WSU now wants to have a permanent fence there instead.
During bountiful years of corn crop, they put up temporary silos made of snow fence and a reinforced tarpaper.
The way, too, the big male of a blue jay on the snow fence to the right, watching with us, waits for the dark or what passes for the dark, a kind of water-surface blue, and the second the sun is gone he's gone just over us, a few feet at the most, likely into the safety of a hedge.
Old fence posts, shovel handles, or sections of snow fence make economical plant reinforcements.
Question: We hadn't been to Alton Baker Park in some time and were surprised to find a chain-link fence and a "snow fence" on the south side of the duck pond.