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hedge-bank
[See bank n.1 1.]
The bank or ridge of earth on which a hedge is planted; the slope beneath a hedge by a wayside.
1776–96Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 362 Woods, mountainous heaths, walls, and hedge banks. 1854P. J. Selby Observ. Wasps in Hist. Berwick. Nat. Club III. 181 [It] makes its nest in hedge-banks. 1900Daily News 21 Sept. 3/2 Deeply laid roads and high, steep hedge banks. 1909Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 16/3 A network of tiny marks..crossing and recrossing from hedge-bank to stack. 1937Discovery Apr. 120/2 Feverfew, commonly found about hedgebanks. |