quickset

English

Adjective

quickset (not comparable)

1. (of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 228:

     What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird!

Noun

quickset (plural quicksets)

1. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method

Translations

cuttings

• Bulgarian: жив плет m (živ plet)
• Finnish: pistokkaat pl
• Georgian: სხლტე (sxlṭe), ხერგული (xerguli)

Verb

quickset (third-person singular simple present quicksets, present participle quickseting, simple past and past participle quickseted)

1. (obsolete) To enclose (something) with quickset hedge.

Further reading

• “quickset, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• quickest