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Definition of Quickset
1. Adjective. Grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground. "A quickset hawthorn hedge"
2. Noun. Cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines. "A quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard"
Definition of Quickset
1. n. A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
2. a. Made of quickset.
3. v. t. To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.
Definition of Quickset
1. Adjective. (context: of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground ¹
2. Noun. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quickset
1. a plant suitable for hedges [n -S]
Medical Definition of Quickset
1. A living plant set to grow, especially. When set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn. To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quickset
Literary usage of Quickset
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"SATE, adj. Soft. Dorset. Sate/toll, a simpleton. SATELL, t>. To settle. SATER, n.
Saturday. SATES, >. Quickset. ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"This we may imagine to have been the state of the beer-trade when Sir Harry
Quickset, Sir Giles Wheelbarrow, Knt., and company, accompanied Isaac ..."
3. The New Family Receipt-book: Containing Eight Hundred Truly Valuable (1819)
"To make a Quickset Hedge or Fence. Quick fences often become open in many places $t
bottom, notwithstanding the utmost attention, and more especially if ..."
4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... through quickset hedges with his eyes shut. When a letter contains anything
which Francis is not likely to have written, or something at utter variance ..."
5. The Public School Speaker by Francis Warre Cornish (1900)
"Quickset. By no manner of means ; say you are quite another man. ... And so will I.
Quickset. What of that? I know I said there was nothing but brooms. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"If it renders a stronger or closer fence than the ordinary quickset-hedge necessary,
I think it was the duty of the company to provide it. ..."
7. Hood's Own: Or, Laughter from Year to Year: Being Former Runnings of His by Thomas Hood (1855)
"said Quickset, with some alarm, and letting go the bridle of Old Ball, ...
said Thickset, appealing to Quickset, and determined to say as he said. ..."
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