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ˈthorn-ˈhedge
A hedge of thorny shrubs; spec. a hedge composed of hawthorn ‘sets’. Hence ˈthorn-ˈhedged a., furnished with or enclosed by a thorn-hedge.
1560Bible (Genev.) Micah vii. 4 The most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge. a1732T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 33 It is like a thorn-hedge..in the way which that bias inclines him to. 1854Zoologist XII. 4286, I discovered in a thorn-hedge the first nest that I had seen that year. 1892A. M. Clerke Fam. Stud. Homer iii. 73 Odysseus..approached the thorn-hedged enclosure. |