jackal-proof, adjective

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Also jakhal-proof.
Of fencing or other barriers: erected to provide protection against predators; of an area: protected against predators by the use of such fencing. Usually in the Special collocations jackal-proof fence, jackal-proof fencing, jackal-proof wire.
1905 E.A. Nobbs in Flint & Gilchrist Science in S. Afr. 385The best remedy..is the construction of jackal-proof wire fences round whole farms or groups of farms, within whose shelter stock can graze at will.
c1911 J.W. Kiddall in S. Playne Cape Col. 689Kraaling the flocks..is necessary unless the lands are secured by a jackal-proof fence.
c1911 S. Playne Cape Col. 323The farm is entirely fenced and divided into camps, jackal-proof wire being used in camps where chicks are reared.
c1911 S. Playne Cape Col. 702There are about 1200 Merino sheep, which..are herded by day and confined in jackal-proof camps at night.
1972 Daily Dispatch 4 Mar. 19 (advt)Six land camps and four veld camps jackal proof fencing in very good condition with abundant stock water.
1972 Grocott’s Mail 16 May 1The farm is divided into 12 grazing camps which are stock-proof. The boundary fencing is jackal-proof.
1977 F.G. Butler Karoo Morning 87Mr Gilfillan..sent him up to the Eastern Transvaal..whence he returned to kill jackals for the four farmers whose boundaries converged on Doornberg. Jackal-proof fencing was still a thing of the future.
1979 M. Parkes Wheatlands 31The end of the war..enabled Arthur to get on with the enormous task of fencing his farm with jackal-proof netting, which he had seen during a visit to America and had begun to work on as early as 1896.
1985 J. Deacon in S. Afr. Panorama Sept. 30Jackal-proof fences have put many Coloured herdsmen out of a job.
erected to provide protection against predators; of an area: protected against predators by the use of such fencing. Usually in the Special collocations jackal-proof fence, jackal-proof fencing, jackal-proof wire.
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