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winter hedge

noun

West Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire dialect a clothes horse

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Nearby words

  1. winter crookneck,
  2. winter flounder,
  3. winter games,
  4. winter garden,
  5. winter haven,
  6. winter heliotrope,
  7. winter jasmine,
  8. winter melon,
  9. winter moth,
  10. winter oats

Word Origin for winter hedge

so called in contrast to a hedge on which clothes are dried in summer
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