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Property rights, made of wood and quiet aggression toward your neighbor's dog.
means Barriers built to mark boundaries, keep things in or out, and announce where one yard ends and another begins.
from Shortened from Middle English 'defens' (defense) — a fence was literally what kept enemies, livestock, and trespassers at bay.
Good neighborsFrost's famous line was actually skeptical of the proverb.
Slang fenceA dealer in stolen goods, since 1600s thieves' cant.
Sitting onIdiom for refusing to pick a side.