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quicksets

quicksets is the plural of quickset.

Meaning of quickset

Noun

quickset (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 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...

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Questions about quicksets

What is quicksets the plural of?
Quicksets is the plural of quickset.

Words near quicksets in the dictionary

  1. quickscoped
  2. quickscopes
  3. quickscoping
  4. quickselect
  5. quickset
  6. quicksets
  7. quicksetting
  8. quickshaw
  9. quickshaws
  10. quickshifter
  11. quickshifters

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