hedge creeper

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• Creeper

  ·noun Crockets. ·see <<Crocket>>. II. Creeper ·noun A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• creeper

  n. The name (sc. Tree-creeper)is given to several New Zealand birds of the genus Certhiparus, N.O. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• creeper

  A small grapnel (iron instrument with four claws) for dragging for articles dropped overboard in har...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hedge

  ·vt To surround so as to prevent escape. II. Hedge ·vi To reduce the risk of a wager by making a be...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hedge

  To make a hedge; to secure a bet, or wager, laid on one side, by taking the odds on the other, so th...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hedge

  The Hebrew words thus rendered denote simply that which surrounds or encloses, whether it be a stone...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• blue-creeper

  n. name given to the creeper, Comesperma volubile, Lab., N.O. Campanulaceae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• caustic-creeper

  n. name given to Euphorbiadrummondii, Boiss., N.O. Euphorbiaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• tree-creeper

  n. popular name applied tomembers of an old Linnaean genus of birds. The Australianspecies are enum...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• hedge alehouse

  A small obscure alehouse. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge priest

  An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge whore

  An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the ways...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge-laurel

  n. a name given to the tree Mapau (q.v.), an evergreen shrub of New Zealand, of thegenus Pittosporu...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ryzen-hedge

  a fence of stakes and boughs. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• winter-hedge

  a wooden frame (called also a CLOTHES-HORSE) for dry ing linen by the fire. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose