Meanings
- 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
plural quicksets
- 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
present singular third person quicksets · participle present quickseting · participle past quickseted · past quickseted
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivegrown from cuttings planted directly in the ground
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
quickset. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickset
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