quicksetn.¹adj.¹

Brit.

/ˌkwɪkˈsɛt/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪkˌsɛt/

Forms: late Middle English quyksette, 1500s quyckesette, 1500s quycksett, 1500s quykeset, 1500s–1600s quickeset, 1500s– quickset, 1600s quicsette, 1700s quicksett.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: quick adj., set adj.¹; quick adj., set n.¹

Etymology: Partly < quick adj. + set adj.¹, and partly < quick adj. + set n.¹ Compare earlier quickwood n. and slightly later quick n.¹ 4.With use as adjective compare earlier quickset v.

A. n.¹

a. As a count noun: a single cutting or young plant, esp. of hawthorn, usually taken or grown for making hedges.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > of living plants > plant forming

quickseta1450

quick1507

a1450 Complaint J. Brome in Warwickshire Antiquarian Mag. (1869) 4 180 (MED) The..voide grounde was closyd ynne with a wall made of Tymber, Stone, and plaistre, and with palys, hegges, and quyksettes.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviii^v Gette thy quicsettes in the wode countre, and let them be of whyte thorne and crabtre for they be best.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 530 When a quick-set of a vine is planted in a vineyard.

1669 J. Worlidge Kalendarium Rusticum in Systema Agric. 222 Plant Timber-trees, or any Coppice-wood, or Hedge-wood; And also Quick-sets.

a1722 E. Lisle in J. Britten Old Country & Farming Words (E.D.S.) (1880) Gloss. Observ. Husb. In planting quicksets a single chase is a single row.

1794 Act for Inclosing S. Kelsey 13 For preserving the young Quicksets to be planted in the Fences.

1808 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Stafford (ed. 2) vi. 53 Withinside the bank, and a little above the level of the natural surface of the earth, are then planted the quicksets, for which purpose the whitethorn is mostly approved.

1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 19 All the quicksets which may not take root and grow are to be pulled up.

1951 Econ. Hist. Rev. 4 216 The freeholders proceeded to dig out their ditches and plant their quicksets.

1990 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) May 252/1 He also sold plants; quicksets for hedges, privet for topiary.

b. As a mass noun: cuttings or young plants of this kind collectively; esp. hawthorn. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip

planteOE

plantingeOE

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springc1400

clavec1420

sleavingc1440

talionc1440

quick1456

quicking1469

graft1483

quickset1484

slip1495

setlingc1503

set1513

pitchset1519

slaving?1523

truncheon1572

stallon1587

crosset1600

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sliver1604

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offset1629

slipping1638

side-slip1651

slift1657

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pitch1808

heel1822

cutling1834

piping1851

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quickset1484

quickfrith1536

1484 Rent roll St. Wolstan's Hosp., Worcester (Bodleian Rolls, Worc. No. 1) Et soluti pro fodicione..cum Quyksette hoc anno—ijs. jd.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 21^v Where spedy quick set, for a fence ye will drawe.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 237 They plant them in hedges, and the quickset of them make a strong fence.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 184 No topiary Hedge of Quickset Was e're so neatly cut.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Agriculture To make a Hedge and lay the Quickset, is three Pence a Pole.

1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 206 He..inclosed the ground with a single row of quickset.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 48 To extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset.

1849 A. Helps Friends in Council II. iv. 90 Men would have one sturdy quickset of the same height and colour—both in their fellow-men and their hedges.

1913 Econ. Jrnl. 23 239 Are we to condemn the customary tenants for blindly resisting enclosures..when enclosure meant exile or degradation? For what with doubtful titles and lawyer's fees, bills for quickset and new roads, enclosure meant to the small man nothing less than this.

1972 R. Adams Watership Down xlv. 375 Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank.

†2. A hedge made with such cuttings; (occasionally also) a dense thicket. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

quickset1573

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20^v Learne soone to get, a good quick set.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh1^v The haires of the Eye-liddes are for a quic-sette and fence about the Sight.

1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iiii. sig. G^v Theres a deepe ditch, & a hye quick-set about mee.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 32 Esau, who Satyr-like had a quickset of hair on his body.

1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iv. 43 A new Quick-set, which I had just made to keep the Swine from the Beans.

1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 338 They..generally chuse a quickset to make their nest in.

1812 Times 10 Dec. 1/4 The lands are all completely fenced with quicksets, and other growing fences.

1896 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 799 We strode with difficulty..through this great dark quickset of nature.

B. adj.¹

1. Of a hedge, fence, etc.: formed of living plants, esp. thorny ones such as hawthorn. Cf. quick adj. 4b. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of, characterized by, or lacking hedges

quickset1535

hedgy1597

quickwood1696

hedgeless1802

1535 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 374 For cuttyng up the quyke set hege.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii Beset around with treble quickset ranks.

1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. E1^v Are we not rounded with a quick-set hedge Of pointed steele?

1652 P. Sterry England's Deliverance 7 Enclosed with the Quick-set hedge of his Divine Wisdome.

1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State of Cork ii. vi. 288 The land enclosed with quick-set ditches.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 10 An hare sorely hunted has got upon the top of a cut quick-set hedge.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. D p. xxxii Aristotle's works a quickset hedge of fruitless and thorny distinctions!

1828 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 767 Alas, my dear Sir! it is an additional Thorn to the Quickset Hedge of my Lot, that I am so generally talked of as being well off.

1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 11 They approached the first hedge, a pretty stiff quickset one.

1939 A. G. Tansley Brit. Islands & their Vegetation 261 The..abundance of hawthorn in the south of England..is doubtless partly..due to its almost universal use to form ‘quickset’ hedges.

1993 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Nov. 23 Herd separated from herd or from maize or sugar-beet fields by quickset hedges, the whole land..bejewelled with woods, rivers, streams, canals.

†2. In extended use: (of a beard, etc.) rough, bristling. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Qiii^v Hang him rascall..with his wild quicke-set beard there.

1635 J. Taylor Old, Old, very Old Man sig. C From head to heele, his body hath all over, A quick-set, Thick-set nat'rall hairy cover.

1713 Guardian No. 171 (1714) II. 486 To adorn their upper Lip, by raising a quick-set Beard there in the form of Whiskers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quickset
释义	quicksetn.¹adj.¹ Brit. /ˌkwɪkˈsɛt/, U.S. /ˈkwɪkˌsɛt/ Forms: late Middle English quyksette, 1500s quyckesette, 1500s quycksett, 1500s quykeset, 1500s–1600s quickeset, 1500s– quickset, 1600s quicsette, 1700s quicksett. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: quick adj., set adj.¹; quick adj., set n.¹ Etymology: Partly < quick adj. + set adj.¹, and partly < quick adj. + set n.¹ Compare earlier quickwood n. and slightly later quick n.¹ 4.With use as adjective compare earlier quickset v. A. n.¹ 1. a. As a count noun: a single cutting or young plant, esp. of hawthorn, usually taken or grown for making hedges. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > of living plants > plant forming quickseta1450 quick1507 a1450 Complaint J. Brome in Warwickshire Antiquarian Mag. (1869) 4 180 (MED) The..voide grounde was closyd ynne with a wall made of Tymber, Stone, and plaistre, and with palys, hegges, and quyksettes. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviii^v Gette thy quicsettes in the wode countre, and let them be of whyte thorne and crabtre for they be best. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 530 When a quick-set of a vine is planted in a vineyard. 1669 J. Worlidge Kalendarium Rusticum in Systema Agric. 222 Plant Timber-trees, or any Coppice-wood, or Hedge-wood; And also Quick-sets. a1722 E. Lisle in J. Britten Old Country & Farming Words (E.D.S.) (1880) Gloss. Observ. Husb. In planting quicksets a single chase is a single row. 1794 Act for Inclosing S. Kelsey 13 For preserving the young Quicksets to be planted in the Fences. 1808 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Stafford (ed. 2) vi. 53 Withinside the bank, and a little above the level of the natural surface of the earth, are then planted the quicksets, for which purpose the whitethorn is mostly approved. 1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 19 All the quicksets which may not take root and grow are to be pulled up. 1951 Econ. Hist. Rev. 4 216 The freeholders proceeded to dig out their ditches and plant their quicksets. 1990 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) May 252/1 He also sold plants; quicksets for hedges, privet for topiary. b. As a mass noun: cuttings or young plants of this kind collectively; esp. hawthorn. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip planteOE plantingeOE quickwoodc1383 graffa1393 sarmenta1398 slivingc1400 springc1400 clavec1420 sleavingc1440 talionc1440 quick1456 quicking1469 graft1483 quickset1484 slip1495 setlingc1503 set1513 pitchset1519 slaving?1523 truncheon1572 stallon1587 crosset1600 marquot1600 sliver1604 secta1616 offset1629 slipping1638 side-slip1651 slift1657 cutting1691 pitcher1707 mallet-shoot1745 root cutting1784 stowing1788 stool1789 pitch1808 heel1822 cutling1834 piping1851 cutback1897 stump plant1953 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > of living plants > plant forming > collectively quickwoodc1383 quick1456 quicking1469 quickset1484 quickfrith1536 1484 Rent roll St. Wolstan's Hosp., Worcester (Bodleian Rolls, Worc. No. 1) Et soluti pro fodicione..cum Quyksette hoc anno—ijs. jd. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 21^v Where spedy quick set, for a fence ye will drawe. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 237 They plant them in hedges, and the quickset of them make a strong fence. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 184 No topiary Hedge of Quickset Was e're so neatly cut. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Agriculture To make a Hedge and lay the Quickset, is three Pence a Pole. 1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 206 He..inclosed the ground with a single row of quickset. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) v. 48 To extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset. 1849 A. Helps Friends in Council II. iv. 90 Men would have one sturdy quickset of the same height and colour—both in their fellow-men and their hedges. 1913 Econ. Jrnl. 23 239 Are we to condemn the customary tenants for blindly resisting enclosures..when enclosure meant exile or degradation? For what with doubtful titles and lawyer's fees, bills for quickset and new roads, enclosure meant to the small man nothing less than this. 1972 R. Adams Watership Down xlv. 375 Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank. †2. A hedge made with such cuttings; (occasionally also) a dense thicket. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > of living plants quickset1573 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20^v Learne soone to get, a good quick set. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh1^v The haires of the Eye-liddes are for a quic-sette and fence about the Sight. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iiii. sig. G^v Theres a deepe ditch, & a hye quick-set about mee. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 32 Esau, who Satyr-like had a quickset of hair on his body. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iv. 43 A new Quick-set, which I had just made to keep the Swine from the Beans. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 338 They..generally chuse a quickset to make their nest in. 1812 Times 10 Dec. 1/4 The lands are all completely fenced with quicksets, and other growing fences. 1896 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 799 We strode with difficulty..through this great dark quickset of nature. B. adj.¹ 1. Of a hedge, fence, etc.: formed of living plants, esp. thorny ones such as hawthorn. Cf. quick adj. 4b. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of, characterized by, or lacking hedges quickset1535 hedgy1597 quickwood1696 hedgeless1802 1535 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 374 For cuttyng up the quyke set hege. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii Beset around with treble quickset ranks. 1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. E1^v Are we not rounded with a quick-set hedge Of pointed steele? 1652 P. Sterry England's Deliverance 7 Enclosed with the Quick-set hedge of his Divine Wisdome. 1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State of Cork ii. vi. 288 The land enclosed with quick-set ditches. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 10 An hare sorely hunted has got upon the top of a cut quick-set hedge. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. D p. xxxii Aristotle's works a quickset hedge of fruitless and thorny distinctions! 1828 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 767 Alas, my dear Sir! it is an additional Thorn to the Quickset Hedge of my Lot, that I am so generally talked of as being well off. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 11 They approached the first hedge, a pretty stiff quickset one. 1939 A. G. Tansley Brit. Islands & their Vegetation 261 The..abundance of hawthorn in the south of England..is doubtless partly..due to its almost universal use to form ‘quickset’ hedges. 1993 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Nov. 23 Herd separated from herd or from maize or sugar-beet fields by quickset hedges, the whole land..bejewelled with woods, rivers, streams, canals. †2. In extended use: (of a beard, etc.) rough, bristling. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Qiii^v Hang him rascall..with his wild quicke-set beard there. View more context for this quotation 1635 J. Taylor Old, Old, very Old Man sig. C From head to heele, his body hath all over, A quick-set, Thick-set nat'rall hairy cover. 1713 Guardian No. 171 (1714) II. 486 To adorn their upper Lip, by raising a quick-set Beard there in the form of Whiskers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † quicksetv. Forms: see quickset n.¹ and adj.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quickset n.¹ Etymology: < quickset n.¹ Compare set v.¹ Obsolete. transitive. To provide, plant, or enclose with a quickset hedge. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > make or repair hedge [verb (transitive)] > furnish with quickset hedge quickset1508 quick1739 1508 in Cal. Documents Scotl. (1888) IV. 351 [To] diche, quyk set, enclose, and dyvyde into clausures the boundes of Berwyk. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviii It is lasse cost for hym..to quickeset, dyche, and hedge. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 48^v Banks newly quicksettid, som weding do craue. 1632 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. III. 166 Enclosing and quicksetting the lands. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 14 Gardens..ditch'd and quicksetted. 1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree ii. 206 Having inclosed a Piece of Ground..by Quick-setting it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > see also also refers to : † quick-setn.² also refers to : quick-setadj.² also refers to : quick-setadj.³ < n.¹adj.¹a1450v.1508 see also
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