quickset

English

Adjective

quickset (not comparable)

  1. (of a hedge etc) Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 228:
      What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird!

Noun

quickset (plural quicksets)

  1. The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method

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