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hedge-breaking en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The crime of cutting and taking away branches of a hedge.
Might she not, being perhaps accustomed to Hedge-breaking her self, be able to inform her, that there were no Sticks to be had at Cromer?
1712, The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd, London, page 13:But the holiday was for all, the rapture of awakening Nature for all, the various outdoor joys of puddles and sun and hedge-breaking for all.
1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 8: