quicksetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

quickset (plural quicksets)

1. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the fifth (The Woman Pays), pages 35–36:

     There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake

動詞

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.

アナグラム

• quickest