hedge
nounEtymology
From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of hey (a choreographic figure) and quay. More at haw.
Definitions
A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two…
A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- He trims the hedge once a week.
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or…
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between…
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
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A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.
Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price…
Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- The asset class acts as a hedge.
With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the…
With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- Attalus[…]made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge-harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
- He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.
- This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,[…].
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- to hedge a field or garden
To obstruct or surround.
- Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
- Lollius Urbius […] drew another wall […] to hedge out incursions from the north.
To offset the risk associated with.
To avoid verbal commitment.
- He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
To construct or repair a hedge.
To reduce one's exposure to risk.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
behedge, box hedge, Cornish hedge, enhedge, fedge, hain, hedge alehouse, hedgeapple, hedge apple, hedgebank, hedgeberry, hedgebill, hedge bindweed, hedgeborn, hedgebote, hedge-breaking, hedge cactus, hedge clippers, hedge-clippers, hedge creeper, hedge-diving, Hedge End, hedge fund, hedge garlic, hedge-hog, hedgehog, hedge-hop, hedgehop, hedgehopper, hedgehyssop, hedgeless, hedgelike, hedgeline, hedge-lined, hedgemaker, hedgemaking, hedge marriage, hedge maze, hedge mustard, hedgenettle · +42 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hedge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hedge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at hedge
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA