quickset

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adjective

Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground

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Meanings

adjectivequickset (not comparable)
  1. not comparableGrown from cuttings planted directly into the ground

    What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird!

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 228
nounquickset (plural quicksets)

plural quicksets

  1. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method.

    There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake

    1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the fifth (The Woman Pays), pages 35–36
verbquickset (third-person singular simple present quicksets, present participle quickseting, simple past and past participle quickseted)

present singular third person quicksets · participle present quickseting · participle past quickseted · past quickseted

  1. obsoleteTo enclose (something) with quickset hedge.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivegrown from cuttings planted directly in the ground

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian жив плет
  • жив плет (živ plet)cuttings
Finnish pistokkaat
  • pistokkaatcuttings
Cite this entry
APA

quickset. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickset

MLA

“quickset.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickset. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quickset,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickset.

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