QUICKSET

n. a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

2.
a.

Made of quickset. Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges. Walpole.

3.
v.

To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch. Mortimer.


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