NOUN
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cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines
a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard
ADJECTIVE
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grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground
a quickset hawthorn hedge
How To Use quickset In A Sentence
- There shall be, as it were, a quickset hedge of trees and bushes, close, close around your tomb. John Gabriel Borkman
- Later parliamentary enclosures were characterised by quickset hawthorn hedges running in straight lines.
- (You may note that Billy Russell himself had a beard like a quickset hedge, and I reckon he took Raglan's order as a personal insult.) The Sky Writer
- a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard
- The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset — a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset -- a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles. The Pickwick Papers
- The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset — a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- They were at some little distance from the big flower-garden, and the path that led to them was heavily shaded by shrubbery on one side, and on the other by a hedge which, though "quickset" as a foundation, was now a mass of honeysuckle and everlasting peas. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls
- Indeed, in the midst of the fields, even a hovel may have a certain grace derived from the pure air, the verdure, the open country — a hill, a serpentine road, vineyards, quickset hedges, moss-grown thatch and rural implements; but poverty in Le Colonel Chabert
- For instance, in recommending a certain kind of quickset fence, he insists upon it, as one of its advantages, that it will not readily ignite under the torch of the mischievous wayfarer: "Naturale sepimentum," says he, "quod obseri solet virgultis aut spinis, The Caesars