winter hedge

noun

1. dialect.
   a clothes horse

Word History and Origins

Origin of winter hedge¹

so called in contrast to a hedge on which clothes are dried in summer

Example Sentences

Old for her age and one of they flat, dreary-minded females with a voice like the wind in a winter hedge, eyes without no more light in 'em than a rabbit's, and a moping, down-daunted manner that made the women shrug their shoulders and the men fly.

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And then, hollow as the wind in a winter hedge, the ghost made answer.

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"To be, or not to be?" soliloquised he, from his seat on the gate, as he plucked thin branches off from the bare winter hedge, and scattered them.

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