perimeter fence/wall• Three men wearing balaclava-type masksdragged him to a perimeter fence where the attack took place.• The innerZones 1 and 2 are enclosed by a 19-mile perimeter fence.• She too looks like a retired person, retired from the turbulencebeyond the perimeter wall.• There was no exit in the perimeter fence and the gates in the side fence were locked.• Keeping the perimeter fence a few yards away on his left, Angel One loped silently along until he reached its north-western limit.• Centred in East Anglia, the SnowballCampaign involved a symbolic cutting of the perimeter fence at air-force bases around the country.• His eyes roved to the perimeter fences where the lights still shone as if in defiance of the coming day.
Originperimeter
(1500-1600)Frenchpérimètre, from Latin, from Greek, from peri- (PERICARDIUM) + metron“measure”