Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
hedge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A hedge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
hedge .
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Examples
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Should the writer use 'frith' instead of 'peace', or 'burh' instead of 'fort', or 'cyrtel' instead of 'dress', or 'hegge' instead of 'fence'?
Archaic terminology in historical fiction Carla 2006
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Ne reche ich noȝt of þine þrete. ȝif ich me holde in mine hegge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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The ffirst cours: brawne, [a] with the borys hed, [30] lying in a felde, hegge [31] about w {i} t {h} a scriptur, sayng on this wyse;
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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