winter hedge

British  

noun

1. dialect a clothes horse

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Etymology

Origin of winter hedge

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

Example Sentences

And then, hollow as the wind in a winter hedge, the ghost made answer.

From Project Gutenberg

"To be, or not to be?" soliloquised he, from his seat on the gate, as he plucked thin branches off from the bare winter hedge, and scattered them.

From Project Gutenberg