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Hedge vs Lawn - What's the difference?

hedge | lawn |

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 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.
  • *{{quote-book, 1899, (Henry Rider Haggard), title= A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222
  • , passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,

    Derived terms

    * hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgy

    Verb

    (hedg)
  • To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
  • to hedge a field or garden
  • To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
  • * Bible, Hos. ii. 6
  • I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
  • * Milton
  • Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.
  • (finance) To offset the risk associated with.
  • To avoid verbal commitment.
  • He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
  • To construct or repair a hedge.
  • (finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
  • Derived terms

    * hedge one's bets * hedgy

    lawn

    English

    (wikipedia lawn)

    Etymology 1

    Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English land

    Noun

  • An open space between woods.
  • Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
  • Derived terms
    * lawn mower * lawned

    Etymology 2

    Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
  • The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
  • 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.
  • (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 :
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