Quickset
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Quickset is an adjective meaning (of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground.
Meaning
(of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground.
More Meanings
- The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method.
- (obsolete) To enclose (something) with quickset hedge.
Example Sentences
What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird!
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
Word Forms
- quicksets
- quickseting
- quickseted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include planted, hedge, gas, hedges, undercut, new-mown.
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