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单词 quick fence
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quick fence
b. Composed of living plants, esp. hawthorn, as quick fence, quick hedge, †quick mound. Cf. sense B. 4, quickset n.1 and adj.1 [Compare also the following early place-name evidence: Quictunstal (12th cent.; now Whittonstall, Northumberland), Quicham (late 12th cent.; now Whickham, Durham), both apparently originally having reference to places with a quickset hedge.
With quick hedge compare early modern Dutch quickhaeghe.]
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c1425 ( Bounds (Sawyer 140) in S. E. Kelly Charters of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (1995) 57 Þonne west be Æwille mearce oþ þone cwichege, suð andlang heges on þane bradan hegewai.
1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 45 The qwyk heige set frome the gate on to the hall doore.
?a1500 (?1458) in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. ii. 42 (MED) These [perh. read Thus] weren the dyches i diged in ful harde grounde And i cast up to arere with the wey; Sethen they were i set with a quyk mownde To holde in the bunkes for ever and ay.
1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) i. iv. f. 7v A quicke hedge (which we cal a quicke sette hedge).
1627 F. Little Monum. Christian Munif. (1871) 93 They fenced it with a quick mound.
1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) ii. 15 A thousand Acres of Land divided with good Quick-fences.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 140 A Quick or Living-Hedge.
1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening I. 64/1 Now by a quick hedge..may be understood all growing hedges of what sort or nature soever.
1818 W. H. Marshall Rev. I. 44 The expense of making new quick fences.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 38 On top a palisade and quick hedge.
1924 Times 23 June 13/4 The beauty of the English scenery owes a good deal to the conjunction in the same plant [sc. hawthorn] of profuse, white-scented blossom, with..a habit of growth which specially fit it for forming a live or ‘quick’ fence.
1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk v. 97 Bush-fence..means a live or quick hedge, such as one of pinguin.., cactus, or the like.
1998 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Asia-Pacific (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 7 Jan. FE/W0519/WD City afforestation was intensified so that quick fences extending 3,000 km were built throughout the country.
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