English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quickset (not comparable)
- (of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground
- 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:
- What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird!
Noun
[edit]quickset (plural quicksets)
- The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method.
- 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:
- 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
Translations
[edit]cuttings
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Verb
[edit]quickset (third-person singular simple present quicksets, present participle quickseting, simple past and past participle quickseted)
Further reading
[edit]- “quickset, v.”, in OED Online 👁 Paid subscription required
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
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