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chicken wire

A light-gauge galvanized wire fencing usually made with hexagonal mesh.

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chicken wire

(Building) wire netting with a hexagonal mesh

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chick′en wire`

a light wire netting having a large hexagonal mesh, used esp. as fencing.

[1915–20, Amer.]

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chicken wire - a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences

meshwork, meshing, network, mesh, net - an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals

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chicken wire

n → rete f metallica (a maglie esagonali)

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When we plant now we put our bulbs in deep and put chicken wire over them before replacing the soil.