ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method.
  2. (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

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Related dictionary entries include planted, hedge, gas, hedges, undercut, new-mown.

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