Enclose+with+a+hedge

  • 11hedge — I UK [hedʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms hedge : singular hedge plural hedges ** a line of bushes or small trees growing close together around a garden or field We crawled through a gap in the hedge. a high hawthorn hedge • a hedge against… …

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  • 12hedge — 1. noun /hedʒ/ a) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a… …

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  • 13enclose — Synonyms and related words: admit, assimilate, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, cage, chamber, check, circle, circle in, circumscribe, cloister, close, close in, compass, compass about, complete, comprehend,… …

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  • 14hedge — 1. noun 1) high hedges Syn: hedgerow, bushes; windbreak 2) an excellent hedge against a fall in the dollar Syn: safeguard, protection, shield, screen, guard, buffer, cushion; insurance …

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  • 15sepiment — ˈsepəmənt noun ( s) Etymology: Latin saepimentum, from saepire to fence, enclose with a hedge (from saepes hedge, fence); probably akin to Greek haimos thicket, haimasia stone wall : something (as a hedge or fence) that encloses …

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  • 16Tyning — is a name element occurring commonly in north east Somerset, England most of all in the Bath area, though also as far as Cheddar in the south west, and over the borders into Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. It is used of three woodlands, and also… …

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  • 17hug — (v.) 1560s, hugge to embrace, of unknown origin; perhaps from O.N. hugga to comfort, from hugr courage, mood, from P.Gmc. *hugjan, related to O.E. hycgan to think, consider, Goth. hugs mind, soul, thought. Other have noted the similarity in some… …

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  • 18fence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. barrier, barricade, wall, stockade, paling, hedge, railing; slang, bagman or woman, receiver [of stolen goods]. v. i. en close; fight, thrust and parry; parry, evade; slang, bootleg, black market,… …

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  • 19mound — {{11}}mound (n.) 1550s, hedge, fence, also embankment, dam (a sense probably influenced by mount (n.)). The relationship between the noun and the verb is uncertain. Commonly supposed to be from O.E. mund hand, protection, guardianship (cognate… …

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  • 20enhedge — ə̇nˈhej, en transitive verb Etymology: en (I) + hedge, n. : to enclose or surround with or as if with a hedge * * * enhedge see en prefix1 3 …

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