hedge

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hedge englannista suomeksi

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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(RQ:Jefferies Amateur Poacher)The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window(nb..), 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 barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
(RQ:KJV)
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
(senseid) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

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(quote-journal)
Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or 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.
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)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.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jone), Folio Society 1973, p.639:

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{{quote-book|en|year=1899|author=Henry Rider Haggard|title=http://books.google.com/books?id=tOtBAAAAIAAJ A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898|page=222
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To obstruct or surround.
(RQ:Milton History) drew another wall (..) to hedge out incursions from the north.
To offset the risk associated with.
To avoid verbal commitment.
To construct or repair a hedge.
To reduce one's exposure to risk.
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