Definition of hedge

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Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..

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Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Hedging Bill :: Hedging bill () A hedge bill. See under Hedge.
Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges..
Sea Hedgehog :: Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A hedgehog.
Sauce-alone :: Sauce-alone (n.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Wood-layer :: Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges..
Segge :: Segge (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Billhook :: Billhook (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter..
Impalement :: Impalement (n.) That which hedges in; inclosure.
Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc..
Privet :: Privet (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim..
Sepiment :: Sepiment (n.) Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
Hedger :: Hedger (n.) One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting..
Quick :: Quick (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge..
Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
Take :: Take (v. i.) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge..
Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.
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