hedgerow

English

Etymology

From Middle English heggerowe, heggerewe, heggerawe, from Old English *heċġrāw, *heċġrǣw (attested only as Old English heġerǣwe, heġerēwe (“hedgerow”)), equivalent to hedge +‎ row.

Noun

hedgerow (plural hedgerows)

1. a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

   • 1971, Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven:

     If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the may queen

Derived terms

• hedgerow jelly

 

Translations

a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge

• Catalan: tanca viva f, bardissa (ca) f
• Faroese: runnagirðing f
• Finnish: pensasaita (fi)
• French: rangée de haie f
• Galician: sebe (gl) f
• German: Hecke (de) f
• Plautdietsch: Hakj f
• Scottish Gaelic: callaid f
• Spanish: seto (es) m
• Swedish: häck (sv) c, buskrad c
• Welsh: clawdd (cy) m