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