| 单词 | foot hedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot hedge foot hedge n. now rare a simple hedge consisting of a row of plants having no surrounding ditch; cf. foot set n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > types of hedge foot set1601 foot hedge1701 the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > protection for new hedge foot hedge1701 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Z/1 Inhoc,..any corner or out part of a common Field ploughed up and sowed..and sometimes fenced off with a dry foot Hedge. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. xii. 93 A Foot-hedge is one that has no Ditch belonging to it. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 250 Foot-hedge, a slight dry hedge of thorns, placed by the side of a newly-planted hedge, to protect the quick. 1934 T. Hennell Change in Farm iv. 41 The old name for the mound on which the hedge grows is the floor-bank, or flower-bank; a hedge without one, consisting simply of a row of quick with a railing on either side to defend it till it can defend itself, is called a foot-hedge. < as lemmas |
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