fencerow

During the battle, Butler and fellow soldiers defended themselves behind a fencerow.

A low line of greening hills formed a fencerow over which sheeplike tufts began to bound.

Think about your property: Do you have a wetland area, the edge of a forest, a field border, windbreak or a brushy fencerow?

When spooked, Chipping Sparrows fly a short distance to the nearest tree or fencerow.

The Indians poured such an intense fire on the fencerow that when it was over Butler found that his clothes were riddled with bullets.

Nowhere that I know - by shad-blow and fencerow, By woods where the lilacs grow, By the rotted sills.

His mantra to farmers was "get big or get out," and he urged farmers to plant commodity crops like corn "from fencerow to fencerow."

Since I'll be closing down part of their smorgasbord by eliminating the rose hips, the elderberries and the poison ivy berries, I really feel I owe the birds their fencerow sumac.

Seventeen years later, the fencerow - the growth is called a fencerow even though there is no fence there and never was - has finally made it to the top of the end-of-season chore list.