Hedge vs Lawn - What's the difference?
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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge , little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
(lb) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
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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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*:Attalus made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge -harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p.639:
*:He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge -tavern near Aldersgate.
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, passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
* Bible, Hos. ii. 6
* Milton
(finance) To offset the risk associated with.
To avoid verbal commitment.
To construct or repair a hedge.
(finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
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, title= (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
(countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
* 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
As nouns the difference between hedge and lawn
is that hedge is a thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden while lawn is an open space between woods.As a verb hedge
is to enclose with a hedge or hedges.As a proper noun Lawn is
a town in Newfoundland and Labrador.hedge
English
Noun
(wikipedia hedge) (en noun)A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222
Derived terms
* hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgyVerb
(hedg)- to hedge a field or garden
- I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
- Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.
- He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
Derived terms
* hedge one's bets * hedgylawn
English
(wikipedia lawn)Etymology 1
Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English landNoun
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Derived terms
* lawn mower * lawnedEtymology 2
Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.Noun
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.