📚 noun • entry_id 56978
electric fence
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cerca eléctrica • cerco eléctrico • valla electrificada
A fence containing metal wire through which an electric current is passed, as a deterrent which will shock people or animals trying to breach or climb the fence.
To ward off deer, Mr. Haas, an ornithologist, has installed an electric fence around his garden in the park.
[W]hen Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain joked about a killer electric fence to keep migrants out, political electric shocks surged rapidly south of the Rio Grande.
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