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▪ I. quickset, n.1 and a.1|ˈkwɪksɛt|
Also 5–6 quyk-, 6 quyck-, quyke-, 7 quic-, etc.
[f. quick a. 3 + set ppl. a. and n.]
A. n.
1. a. collect. Live slips or cuttings of plants, set in the ground to grow, esp. those of whitethorn or other shrub of which hedges are made.
1484Rent roll St. Wolstan's Hosp., Worcester (Bodleian Rolls, Worc. No. 1), Et soluti pro fodicione..cum Quyksette hoc anno—ijs. jd. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 51 Where speedy quickset for a fence ye wil drawe. 1607J. Norden Surv. Dial. v. 237 They plant them in hedges, and the quickset of them make a strong fence. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Agriculture, To make a Hedge and lay the Quickset, is three Pence a Pole. 1816Southey Ess. (1832) I. 206 He..inclosed the ground with a single row of quickset. 1837Dickens Pickw. v, To extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset. 1938M. Hadfield Everyman's Wild Flowers & Trees 63 Common Hawthorn... A valuable hedge plant, as such, called quick-set.
fig.1847–9Helps Friends in C. Ser. i. (1851) II. 4 Men would have one sturdy quickset of the same height and colour—both in their fellow-men and their hedges.
b. With a and pl. A single slip or cutting of this kind.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §124 Get thy quycksettes in the wode-contrey and let them be of whyte thorne and crabtre for they be beste; holy and hasell be good. 1601Holland Pliny I. 530 When a quick-set of a vine is planted in a vineyard. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 266 Plant Timber⁓trees, or any Coppice-wood, or Hedge-wood; and also Quick-sets. 1794Act for inclosing South Kelsey 13 For preserving the young Quicksets to be planted in the Fences. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 428 Quicksets are also purchased, for the same purposes as those which are familiar to the modern agriculturist.
2. A quickset hedge or thicket.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 45 Learne soone to get A good quickset. 1634Heywood & Brome Lancash. Witches iv. H.'s Wks. 1874 IV. 219 Theres a deepe ditch, and a hye quick-set about mee. 1680Otway Caius Marius iv. i, A new Quick-set, which I had just made to keep the Swine from the Beans. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 338 They generally chuse a quickset to make their nest in. 1896Cornh. Mag. Dec. 799 We strode with difficulty..through this great dark quickset of nature. 1973R. Adams Watership Down xlv. 375 Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank.
transf.1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. vii. §7 The haires of the Eye-liddes are for a quic-sette and fence about the Sight. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. ii. §34 Esau, who Satyr-like had a quickset of hair on his body.
B. adj.
a. (or attrib.) Of a hedge: Formed of living plants. So also with fence, rank, row, screen, etc. Cf. quick a. 3 b.
1535Nottingham Rec. III. 374 For cuttyng up the quyke set hege. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. v. i, As thicke as wealthy Scrobioes quicke-set rowes. Ibid. iii, Beset around with treble quickset ranks. 1644in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. II. 743 Between the Pallisado's and the quick-set Hedge. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 10 An hare, sorely hunted, has got upon the top of a cut quick-set hedge. 1819Shelley Peter Bell the Third v. xi, Many a ditch and quickset fence. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 11 They approached the first hedge, a pretty stiff quickset one.
transf. and fig.1632Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age ii. Wks. 1874 III. 382 Are we not rounded with a quick-set hedge Of pointed steele? 1652Sterry Eng. Deliv. North. Presb. 7 Enclosed with the Quick-set hedge of his Divine Wisdome. 1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. (1817) 356 Aristotle's works a quickset hedge of fruitless and thorny distinctions!
b. transf. Of a beard: Rough, bristling. Also fig.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. viii, Hang him rascall..with his wilde quickset beard there. 1938L. MacNeice Earth Compels 56 Columns of ads, the quickset road to riches. 1948[see hair-trigger b].
▪ II. † quickset, v. Obs.
[f. quickset n.1]
trans. To furnish (plant, enclose, etc.) with a quickset hedge. Also absol.
1508in Cal. Doc. Scotl. (1888) 351 [To] diche, quyk set, enclose, and dyvyde into clausures the boundes of Berwyk. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §123 It is lesse cost for hym..to quyck set dyche and hedge. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 113 Bankes newly quicksetted, some weeding doo craue. 1632Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) III. 166 Enclosing and quicksetting the lands. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 14 Gardens..ditch'd and quicksetted.
Hence † quicksetting vbl. n. Obs.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §124 If thou haue pastures, thou muste nedes haue quyckesettynge, dychynge and plasshynge. 1541Nottingham Rec. III. 390 Dykyng and quycksettyng of the Long Hedge. |