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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hedgerow
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although the Government promise action to preserve hedgerows, they have not produced proposals for a hedgerow protection Bill.
▪ At the hedgerow, a man held a thumbs-up.
▪ Continue and cross the field to gate, keep the hedgerow on the right.
▪ He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow!
▪ The two men fell silent as they cantered their horses between low hedgerows that were bright with the early spears of foxgloves.
▪ They listen from the creosote-dark shadows of hedgerow and wood.
▪ Turn left with the hedgerow to your right and cross the field to the woods.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hedgerow

Hedgerow \Hedge"row`\, n. A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.

By hedgerow elms and hillocks green.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hedgerow

Old English hegeræw; see hedge (n.) + row (n.).

Wiktionary
hedgerow

n. a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge

WordNet
hedgerow

n. a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes [syn: hedge]

Wikipedia
Hedgerow (disambiguation)

A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs planted to act as a barrier or boundary.

Hedgerow may also refer to:

  • Hedgerow (weapon), a variant of the Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar used to support amphibious assaults
  • Borderlife ( Gader Chaya, literally: Hedgerow), a 2014 novel written by Dorit Rabinyan
  • Hedgerow removal
  • Hedgerow Theatre, an historic theatre in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania

Usage examples of "hedgerow".

With its neatly trimmed hedgerows, tall aluminum streetlamps, and low-roofed houses with carports and picture windows, Santa Clara resembled a middle-class exurbia in New Jersey or Ohio.

Evolved among the hedgerows and grassplots of North China this animal is the living, breathing symbol of greenness, of fecund, perennial plant life, of the transitional stage between vegetable and animal.

She was sitting on the crossboard at the coiner of her sandbox one evening after supper, staring out at the park, catching glimpses of it through gaps in the hedgerow, which was still filling in with new spring growth.

There were no fences or hedgerows, but irrigation canals rising slightly above the tilth ran at fifty-meter intervals down the length of the field.

Far on every side stretches a homely landscape, tilth and pasture, hedgerow and clustered trees, to where the sky rests upon the gentle hills.

Soon the long hedgerows could be seen ambling away in no particular pattern.

This little hedgerow and sylvan plant has a root which is very astringent, so that when held in the mouth it will stay any flow of blood from the nostrils.

On all that road our footsteps erst had been Even thus commingled, and our shadows seen Blent on the hedgerows and the water-way.

Under the spruce by the hedgerow, the curie in the three-cornered hat reading his breviary had lost his right foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had left white scabs on his face.

They were halfway up the cobblestone walk that ran through a series of hedgerows and flowering plum to the front door when Brin brought them to a sudden halt.

Crab Apple, armed with thorns, grows in our fields and hedgerows, furnishing verjuice, which is rich in tannin, and a most useful application for old sprains.

The staff car in which he and Beaumont had driven from London was partly hidden beneath the shade of two great oaks, and as far as the eye could see there appeared to be nothing but open fields, neat green hedgerows and occasional clumps of trees.

Red hips and haws decorated the hedgerows and fallen leaves and beechnut casings strewed the driveway up to the big house.

Before him lay the moat of red dirt with its hedgerows of razor wire, and beyond that loomed the blackish green snarl of the jungle.

The chestnut whuffed and sidestepped away from the road and into the stubbled grainfield, backing away from the hedgerow that seemed to start with the scrubby willows.