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Meanings of sunk fence in English

A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape.

Synonyms
Examples for "ha-ha"
Examples for "ha-ha"
1
We'd be terribly proud of it, if pride wasn't a sin, ha-ha.'
Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery
2
There will be Lee-Metford rifles and ammunition there ready for thy taking-ha-ha!
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
3
Angelica Forey thumped the piano, and sang: I'm a laughing Gitana, ha-ha!
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4
4
Prescott actually laughed, his posh ha-ha noise rather than proper laughter.
The Slab
5
For some minutes they thus remained, looking down into the ha-ha.
The Small House at Allington
1
So they struck in towards the haw-haw-thefour walking almost abreast.
Halcyone
2
He tries to hate the haw-haw swell, and is equally unsuccessful.
Social Pictorial Satire
3
Glad she hasn't taken a fancy to some haw-haw fellow, like that fool Barold.
A Fair Barbarian
4
You remember our meeting that charming Miss Halcyone La Sarthe across the haw-haw on Easter Sunday?
Halcyone
5
Old Mr. Crow gave a loud haw-haw.
The Tale of Nimble Deer / Sleepy-Time Tales
Usage of sunk fence in English
1
He was kept at home for a week, and told not to go past the sunk fence.
The Book of One Syllable
2
In the garden stood Rose, on the edge of the sunk fence dividing the Rectory domain from the cornfield.
Robert Elsmere
3
There she made for a huge oak, which gloomed in the moonlight by the sunk fence parting the grounds.
Mary Marston
4
Its garden surrounded by a sunk fence could be seen, and the figure of a lady walking in it.
The Coryston Family / A Novel
5
It was erected after a great many disputes, but was unfortunately surrounded by a sunk fence and ornamental railing.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 16
6
With her opera-glass, she examined the meadow, then ran to the bottom of the garden, and lying down, peered over the sunk fence.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
7
She half wished she was not too old and dignified to dart across the road, leap the sunk fence, and run to see.
Mistress and Maid: A Household Story
8
Behind this came a square piece of kitchen garden, divided from the fields by a sunk fence, with a little wooden foot-bridge across it.
Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls
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