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Postby Bailey » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:58 pm

The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is vertical and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The two syllables may also refer to the onomatopoeia which represents the sound of light or sarcastic laughter.
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Postby Perry » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:21 am

You mean that a ha ha fence isn't a duel between two comics :?: :?
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Postby gailr » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:50 pm

The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached.
Someone has to do this: the definition sounds like a minnie ha-ha.

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Postby Bailey » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:09 pm

I'd never heard of it until I came across it in my reading. Not sure I've ever seen one, even After I did an image search on Google.

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Postby eberntson » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:23 pm

I have seen a couple and have had a friend fall into one, as we were running over the lawns of an Norman estate in knee high grass he disappeared. Ouch! There is another word for them in my gardening books too. The "fence" has been used since Roman time, it is referenced in one of my Roman Garden book, and since the Roman never really invented anything I am sure they stole the idea from someplace else.

Zoo's use this technique often when they display African veld critters and want to keep species apart in a passive way, or away from the edges of the enclosure. To bad they didn't have them in Jurassic Park. :-)

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