mud fence
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- Farmers in the region often build a mud fence to keep livestock from wandering off.
Examples
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Her grandfather showed her how to repair the cracked mud fence after the rainstorm.
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The old barn was surrounded by a mud fence that had stood for decades.
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The farm is surrounded by a mud fence.
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They built a mud fence to keep the animals in.
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Farmers in the region often build a mud fence to keep livestock from wandering off.
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Her grandfather showed her how to repair the cracked mud fence after the rainstorm.
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The old barn was surrounded by a mud fence that had stood for decades.
Synonyms
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A structure around land to mark or protect it
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Morphology
The meaning 'a fence constructed from mud' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'mud' (sticky wet soil) + 'fence' (a barrier), following a common English material+object compound pattern. This logic is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Mud fence comes from a very simple farming idea: people mixed wet earth and straw and built a strong wall to serve as a mud fence around fields or animal pens. So today mud fence means 'a fence made from mud' used to keep animals in or protect an area.