"jackleg fence" meaning in English

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          "name": "Walls and fences",
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          "ref": "1985, Sally Garrett, chapter 13, in Northern Fires, New York: Harlequin, page 213",
          "text": "The wind had blown the snow against the jackleg fences, and now only the top rail and anchor posts peeked out from beneath the drifts.",
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          "ref": "1991, Patricia Nell Warren, chapter 36, in One Is the Sun, New York: Ballantine, page 489",
          "text": "More meadowlarks were perching along the poles of the jackleg fence, their necklaced throats throbbing as they sang to the Sun.",
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        "A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side."
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        "(US) A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side."
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          "word": "buck fence"
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        "(US) A fence constructed with wooden posts attached to form Xs and a top rail resting where they cross, or rails nailed on either side."
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