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Definition: Sunk Fence |
Sunk FenceNoun1. A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sunk FenceSynonyms: ha-ha (n), haw-haw (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sunk Fence |
| English words defined with "sunk fence": Aha. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "sunk fence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | mélyített kerítés. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unksay encefay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-k-n-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: unfences. | |
-2 letters: fennecs, unfence. | |
-3 letters: fences, fennec, fescue, sunken, unseen. | |
-4 letters: cense, cukes, ensue, feces, fecks, fence, funks, fusee, keefs, keens, knees, necks, nenes, neuks, nukes, scene, skeen, skene, sneck, snuck. | |
-5 letters: cees, cues, cuke, cusk, ecus, ekes, feck, fees, fens, feus, funk, funs, fuse, keef, keen, kefs, kens, knee, kues, kune, neck, nene, neuk. | |
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