Crossword clues for quickset
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quickset \Quick"set`\, n. A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
Quickset \Quick"set`\, a. Made of quickset.
Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges.
--Walpole.
Quickset \Quick"set`\, v. t.
To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to
quickset a ditch.
--Mortimer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context of a hedge etc English) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground n. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method
WordNet
adj. grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground; "a quickset hawthorn hedge" [syn: quickset(a)]
n. cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines; "a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard"
Usage examples of "quickset".
On one side was a mass of outbuildings, and then a high wall, and on the other the very closest and highest quickset hedge I have ever seen, which ended in a wood with savage spikes on its containing wall.
I knew that my one chance to get to the temple was by way of the quickset hedge.
We all liked him, for he was a companionable soul and had no frills, but in the City he was about as useless as a lily in a quickset hedge.
A happy little inhabitant of the fir-trees, where it nests, and it is often to be seen darting in and out of a quickset hedge.
Master Joshua, see that your scythesmen line the quickset hedge upon the right.
We strayed through furrow and corn and grass We met with many a fence and stile, And a quickset hedge, which we failed to pass.
Italian of an old harper whom I met in Cyprus, and not having had time either to translate it accurately or commit it to memory, I am fain to supply gaps in the music and the verse as I can upon the spur of the moment, as you see boors mend a quickset fence with a fagot.
A long strip of stubble, and then the big double, Two stiff flights of rails with a quickset between.
Miller disappeared on his peace-making errand, when there was a noise like a fowl going through a quickset hedge, and Mr.
The quickset hedge made the cottage almost invisible, but he persevered until by making himself into a human croquet hoop, he could peer through and see the little building, desolate and dark, all the shutters closed, and an air of the end of the world hanging over everything.
If you lean on them they will let you fall, but one may rest against a Yorkshire breeze as one would on a quickset hedge.
The hedge down the aisle now before her was holly to the left and quickset to the right.
The big animal lurched to its feet and blundered sideways into the quickset hedge.
Then he yelled in earnest, for the roaring flame from the other brazier had set the quickset hedge, inflammable with drought, burning as fiercely as the naphtha torch of a fair-booth, while a black patch, widening every moment, was spreading through the dry, white grasses under the clumsy wheels of the living-van, whose brown painted sides were beginning to blister and char, as Billy, rendered intrepid by desperation, grabbed the broken furnace-rake handle, usually employed as a poker, and beat frantically at the encroaching fire.
There shall be, as it were, a quickset hedge of trees and bushes, close, close around your tomb.