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quickset en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground
   • What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird! 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 228:

quickset en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method.
   • There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the fifth (The Woman Pays), pages 35–36:

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Translations (4)

ka სხლტე (cuttings) · ka ხერგული (cuttings) · fi pistokkaat (cuttings) · bg жив плет (cuttings)

quickset en · VERB

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To enclose (something) with quickset hedge.

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