Meanings
nounhedge-breaking (uncountable)
- uncountableThe crime of cutting and taking away branches of a hedge.
Might she not, being perhaps accustomed to Hedge-breaking her self, be able to inform her, that there were no Sticks to be had at Cromer?
1712, The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd, London, page 131 more example
But the holiday was for all, the rapture of awakening Nature for all, the various outdoor joys of puddles and sun and hedge-breaking for all.
1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 8
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