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Quickset

noun
1.
Cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines.






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"Quickset" Quotes from Famous Books



... relates that a woman, returning from the sabbath and being carried through the air by the evil spirit, heard in the morning the bell for the Angelus. The devil let her go immediately, and she fell into a quickset hedge on the bank of a river; her hair fell disheveled over her neck and shoulders. She perceived a young lad who after much entreaty came and took her out and conducted her to the next village, where her house was situated; it required most pressing and repeated questions on the part ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet



Words linked to "Quickset" :   slip, cutting, planted



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