jack-by-the-hedge

British  

noun

1. another name for garlic mustard

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Example Sentences

Sauce′-alone′, a cruciferous plant with a strong garlic smell, Jack-by-the-hedge; Sauce′-boat, a vessel with a spout for holding sauce; Sauce′-box, an impudent person; Sauce′-cray′on, a soft, black pastel used for backgrounds; Sauce′pan, a pan in which sauce or any small thing is boiled; Sauce′pan-fish, the king-crab.—Poor man's sauce, hunger; Serve one with the same sauce, to requite one injury with another, to make to suffer.

From Project Gutenberg

This flavour is also found in a few plants having no botanical affinities with the above, as in the Alliaria officinālis, or Jack-by-the-hedge, a plant of the order Crucifer�.

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We sometimes call you after the name of another plant, "Jack-by-the-hedge."

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Jack-by-the-Hedge, Alliaria, or Sauce-alone; has many Medicinal Properties, and is eaten as other Sallets, eſpecially by Country People, growing wild under their Banks and Hedges.

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