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water-hedge1639
water heck1868
1639–40 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. 161 Indenture of Conveyance..Together with all and singular wayes, water-hedges, trees, ditches, fences, etc.