Word Finder - hedges

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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.

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He trims the hedge once a week.

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A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

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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 non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

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Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

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A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.

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(noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

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To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

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to hedge a field or garden

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To obstruct or surround.

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To offset the risk associated with.

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To avoid verbal commitment.

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He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.

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To construct or repair a hedge.

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To reduce one's exposure to risk.

It is often cut so as to form hedges in gardens.

Finish the pruning of all deciduous trees and hedges as soon as possible.

The hedges are of English FIG.

Smaller hedges may be formed of evergreen privet or of tree-box.

In cutting, the hedge (as indeed all hedges) should be XVI.

For dout ye nat but heerdemen with their catell, shepeherdes with theirshepe, and tieng of horses and mares, destroyeth moch come, the which the hedges wold save.

Its gardens, however, with their clipped hedges, grottos, fountains, and cypress avenues, are said to retain their original Moorish character.

The fruit is a berry - the scarlet berries of the cuckoo-pint are familiar objects in the hedges in late summer.

Whatever style be adopted, it is essential that there should be a thick healthy growth of the hedges or shrubberies that confine the wanderer.

The trees chiefly used for the hedges, and the best for the purpose, are the hornbeam among deciduous trees, or the yew among evergreens.

It is common in woods and hedges in parts of Wales and of the south of England.

Extensive gardens in exposed situations are often divided into compartments by hedges, so disposed as to break the force of high winds.

In England the hawthorn, owing to its hardiness and closeness of growth, has been employed for enclosure of land since the Roman occupation, but for ordinary field hedges it is believed it was generally in use till about the end of the 17th century.

The first hawthorn hedges in Scotland are said to have been planted by soldiers of Cromwell at Inch Buckling Brae in East Lothian and Finlarig in Perthshire.

On each side of the hedges throughout the labyrinth is a small strip of grass.

Helen evidently knew where she was as soon as she touched the boxwood hedges, and made many signs which I did not understand.

The common kind is often used as a fence plant, and also in many Continental gardens to form green walls and hedges.

It is commonly found in hedges and coppices, and as an undergrowth in woods, and reaches a height of some 12 ft.; occasionally, as at Eastwell Park, Kent, it may attain to 30 ft.

The Guardian Nature notes The sweet, slightly acrid scent of privet pervades the streets from garden hedges.

Brown & Hedges ran into street affray - had to take cover in a canal.

To the south, hedges are mainly scrubby, with occasional mature willows.

The gardens are very formal, with topiary hedges, statues, hidden paths and borders.

These are lovely venues, but choosing a gown with a full skirt when the wedding aisle will be a narrow path between hedges or along a craggy beach may be unwise.

Bulbocodium, usually die out on deep richly manured borders, but frequently live on poor stony or sandy soils, on dry grassy banks, or amongst the roots on the sunny sides of hedges, shrubs, stone walls, and trees.

All do best in light open soils and in full sun, and all are of fine habit without much pruning, though they will bear this if necessary and make thick, handsome hedges.

In a special bed the near shelter of hedges is desirable, though their roots should be kept away.

It is an excellent seaside shrub, well adapted for hedges and screens.

Redtwig dogwood is grown for its vivid winter color in hedges, foundation plantings, and as specimen plants.

It grows from 5 to 6 feet high, and Loudon states that in Cornwall, on Sir Charles Lemons estate at Carclew, it was planted in hedges, which flowered magnificently without the slightest protection.

In some parts of the southern US it has grown into flowering hedges along the highways where it was originally planted.

They tend to be symmetrical and clipped, with neat hedges, straight pathways, and traditional plants such as boxwood, azaleas, and containers.

Michael Hedges was one of the most unique and unclassifiable guitar players who ever lived, but unfortunately his career was cut too short.

Not a fingerstyle guitar player in the traditional sense, Hedges played acoustic guitar tuned to alternate tunings and combined various techniques such as right hand hammer-ons and percussive slapping to create his amazing sound.

Hedges would hammer-on bass lines with his left hand while inducing slap harmonics with the right hand, creating a beautiful, layered sound that defied labels.

Part classical, part pop, part New Age, Michael Hedges' sound continues to be an influence today.

Mow the lawn, trim the hedges, stain the deck, then mow the lawn, trim the hedges, and re-stain the deck.

Measures such as mowing the lawn, keeping hedges trimmed, and removing brush from the yard also discourages snakes from living close to human dwellings.

Deidre paced through the garden, not really interested in the blooming flowers, statuary or neat rows of hedges.

It is, however, rarely grown as a timber-tree, its chief employment being for hedges.

Prickly pear (opuntia) hedges are as frequent as in Sicily.

He was ordained deacon in the Church of England, 1740, but Whitefield recommended him to leave his curacies and go into the highways and hedges.

Transplant herbaceous plants in light soils, if not done in autumn; also deciduous trees, shrubs and hedges.

Phormium has been treated as a cultivated plant in New Zealand, though only to a limited extent; for the supplies of the raw material dependence has been principally placed on the abundance of the wild stocks and on sets planted as hedges and boundaries by the Maoris.

I t was also reported that overgrown brambles and hedges were also a problem on the roadside.

On Gell's left flank, hedges and walls formed a natural breastworks for his musketeers.

The first Cornish hedges appeared, enclosing land for cereal crops.

Garden Hedges are not affected (or hedges that form the curtilage of a dwelling house ).

Its also a good time to trim or cut back deciduous hedges such a hornbeam or hawthorn.

The shores are thickly wooded and the surrounding drumlins are divided by a dense patchwork of fields and hedges.

It used to be enclosed by railings and thicker hedges and had a second grandstand and a cinder athletics track.