An electric fence is a wire that gives a small shock to keep animals in. Switch on the electric fence.
It teaches rather than restrains, and an animal that has touched one keeps away for good. An electric fence pulses rather than running constantly, which is why it is not dangerous.
1nounelectric fenceA wire that gives a small shock to keep animals in.
“The electric fence was down and the cows were on the road by six.”
electric fence is a fence.
Practised in Farm & Countryside