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hedgerow|ˈhɛdʒrəʊ|
Forms: see hedge n. and row n.
[OE. heggerǽw, -réw, f. hedge n. + row n. OE. had also heᵹerǽw.]
1. A row of bushes forming a hedge, with the trees, etc. growing in it; a line of hedge.
940Charter of Eadmund in Cod. Dipl. VI. 229 Of Stanforde on ðe olde heggerewe on sondermede. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 97 Cheryes growing wilde in the Woodes, and Hedgerowes. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 549 Made of apples, here [Gloucester] grown in hedge-rows. 1769N. Nicholls Corr. w. Gray (1843) 100 There are many fine trees in the hedge-rows. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 281 Rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedgerows.
2. attrib. and Comb., as hedgerow-bird, hedgerow-carpenter, hedgerow-elm, hedgerow-oak, hedgerow-shrub, hedgerow-thief, hedgerow-timber, hedgerow-tree.
1632Milton L'Allegro 57 By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green. 1781Cowper Retirement 419 Her hedge-row shrubs, a variegated store. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 115 The common Devonshire plough, made by a hedge-row carpenter. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 43 The hedges were of great height, woven about the trunks of hedgerow elms. 1892A. Birrell Res Judic. ii. 48 His family tree..was indeed of the most ordinary hedge-row description.
Hence hedgerowed |ˈhɛdʒrəʊd| a., traversed by hedgerows.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 163 That rich and beautifully hedgerowed country. |