HEDGE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hedge in mean? 

• HEDGE IN (verb)
  The verb HEDGE IN has 1 sense:

1. enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

  Familiarity information: HEDGE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEDGE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

hedge; hedge in

Context example:

hedge the property

Hypernyms (to "hedge in" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Verb group:

hedge (hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

But he is as healthy as a May-hedge in bloom.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We then had an interview with Mr. Cunningham and his son, who were able to point out the exact spot where the murderer had broken through the garden-hedge in his flight.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my gratitude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and every convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an opposite stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again, when Captain Wentworth cleared the hedge in a moment to say something to his sister.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Much better." I turned again to my new acquaintance. "This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host. I live over there—" I waved my hand at the invisible hedge in the distance, "and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)