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Quickset

noun

Cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines.

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"Quickset" Quotes from Famous Books

... and everywhere on the slopes of the hills a wide network of these enclosures can be seen traversing even the most precipitous ascents. Where the dales widen out towards the fat plains of the Vale of York, quickset hedges intermingle with the gaunt stone, and as one gets further eastwards the green hedge becomes triumphant. The stiles that are the fashion in the stone-fence districts make quite an interesting study to ...

— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home

... his hand out of the quickset hedge into which he had thrust it, to reach the rough outside of a nest built by a bird, evidently in the belief that the hawthorn leaves would hide it from sight, and while they were growing the thorns would protect it ...

— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn

... stage of the journey out of Rimini, Filippo's two horses sufficed. The road led almost straight across the level between quickset hedges in white bloom. But when we reached the long steep hill which ascends to San Marino, the inevitable oxen were called out, and we toiled upwards leisurely through cornfields bright with red anemones ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... stiff ground a stiffish leap awaited them; an old quickset had been cut down, and all the elm-trees that grew in it, and a new quickset hedge set on a high bank ...

— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade

Words linked to "Quickset" : cutting, slip, planted