quickset
Americannoun
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a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
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such plants collectively.
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a hedge of such plants.
adjective
noun
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a plant or cutting, esp of hawthorn, set so as to form a hedge
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such plants or cuttings collectively
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a hedge composed of such plants
adjective
Etymology
Origin of quickset
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at quick, set
Example Sentences
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Soon they reached the road and Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The present hour I am in a quickset of embarrassments, and whichever way I turn, a thorn runs into me!
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
Our gardens were at that time separated only by quickset hedges, so that it was easy to see into each others grounds.
From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by John Bewick
Its importunity drove me to the other side of the carriage, only to find another quickset hedge behaving similarly.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Again she paused for footsteps, and there was nothing but the drip-drip, drip-drip of the fog in the quickset hedge.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
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