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winter hedge

British

noun

dialect a clothes horse

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Etymology

Origin of winter hedge

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden

"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.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

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