Talk:longer

Rail for fencing

I was reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910, I think), and she uses "longer" as a noun, apparently meaning a kind of rail for building fences with. Perhaps this is just Canadian usage; I'm not sure. See https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/elrcdne/id/56954/ for another attestation. There are a few other scattered Internet hits; searching Google for fence+"longers" yields a few. I'm reluctant to add a new sense without some more confident consensus, though. What say you all? ACW (talk) 02:43, 3 September 2022 (UTC)