winter hedge

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noun

West Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire dialect a clothes horse

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Word Origin for winter hedge

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

Words nearby winter hedge

wintergreen, wintergreen barberry, wintergreen oil, winter-hardy, Winter Haven, winter hedge, winter heliotrope, winterize, winter jasmine, winterkill, winterly

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How to use winter hedge in a sentence

One line in “Winter Wonderland” has stopped countless people dead in their tracks.
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After all, the Russians were about to mount a winter offensive of their own.
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But Winter is dead, Clapton is tired of life on the road, and King unreliable in concert.
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Not long ago, a whole host of artists were plowing these fields—Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Johnny Winter.
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With the harsh Middle Eastern winter approaching fast, what people in Syria and Iraq need most, in fact, is humanitarian support.
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Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
She is spending the summer near Deppe, and he hears her play the programme she is going to give in Berlin next winter, every day.
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Each seems satisfied with the way his own branch is getting on: Winter is the quicker worker.
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The winter of 1897-98 was spent by Mr. Kipling and his family, accompanied by his father, in South Africa.
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One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson