quickset
quickset adjective: grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground.
Adjective
quickset (not comparable)
- Grown 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
Noun
quickset (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 brake1891, 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...
Verb
quickset (third-person singular simple present quicksets, present participle quickseting, simple past and past participle quickseted)
Forms of quickset
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quicksets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | quicksets |
| present participle | quickseting |
| past participle | quickseted |
| past | quickseted |
Questions about quickset
- What does quickset mean?
- Quickset means grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground.
- What part of speech is quickset?
- Quickset can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
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