fenceline
noun
fenceline is a noun meaning “The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-C-E-L-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fenceline is fencelines.
What does fenceline mean?
noun
- 1
The path a fence takes through a landscape; a long, usually straight, section of fence.
- 2
A narrow strip of territory that a municipality annexes to surround unincorporated territory that the municipality wants to reserve to itself for future growth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fenceline
- fencelines plural
- fence line
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fenceline?
Fenceline appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fenceline come from?
From fence + line.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).