quickwoodn.
/ˈkwɪkwʊd/, U.S. /ˈkwɪkˌwʊd/ Chiefly English regional (northern).
Living plants, esp. hawthorn, used for hedging; = quick n.1 4a; quickset n.1 1b. Chiefly attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > of living plants > plant forming > collectively
quickwoodc1383
quick1456
quicking1469
quickset1484
quickfrith1536
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of, characterized by, or lacking hedges
quickset1535
hedgy1597
quickwood1696
hedgeless1802
c1383 in S. Armitage-Smith John of Gaunt's Reg. 1371–1375 (1911) II. 71 (MED) Pur encloer nostre park de Igh tenylle ove fosse et quicwode et petit hegge.
1473–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 645 Pro..plantacione de le Whikwod.
1595 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1887) (modernized text) VI. 688 No man shall take for casting or setting any ditch, having the quick wood laid beside him, which ditch is no more than one yard and three quarters of a yard broad.
1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden vi. 14 Quickwood, and Moats or Ditches of water, where the ground is leuell, is the best fence.
1696 J. Aubrey Misc. (1721) 104 A Pond..adjoyning to a Quick-wood-hedge.
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman VI. 148 On Inclosing, every Division or Close was ditched and Quick-wood set.
1769 Adome Inclos. Act 10 All the new quick-wood fences.
1800 J. Tuke Gen. View Agric. N. Riding Yorks. (new ed.) 91 White thorn (provincially quickwood) constitutes the most common fence throughout the Riding.
1855 W. M. Gillespie Treat Land-Surveying i. iv. 42 From three to six feet from the roots of the quickwood of the hedge are allowed for the ditches.
1892 J. D. Hood Waterspouts Yorks. Wolds 25 Rooting up a strong quickwood fence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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