A picket fence is a variety of fence that has been used mostly for domestic boundaries. Until the introduction of advertising on fences in the 1980s, a Cricket field was also usually surrounded by a picket fence, giving rise to the expression rattling the pickets for a ball hit firmly into the fence.
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“There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it—if you can remember.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)