chicken wirenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn ˌwaɪər/us/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn ˌwaɪr/netting (= material in the form of a net) made of metal wire, originally used to make closed areas for chickens
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Nets, grids and grilles
- cobweb
- dragnet
- drift net
- gauze
- grating
- grid
- grille
- lattice
- mesh
- mosquito net
- net
- netting
- reticulation
- trellis
- web
- wire netting
Examples from literature
- Chicken wire on top, covered with grass and brushwood, completed the scenic protection.
- I've set out some young trees in the orchard, and unless I get chicken wire around them, my sheep will be barking them for me.
- Over the end of the last tile, which emptied into the brook, they wired a bit of rather fine-meshed chicken wire.
- Six-foot chicken wire will be high enough to enclose the run.
- Somebody found this out, and a net of chicken wire had been placed across the river in No Man's Land.