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Definition of Quicksets
1. quickset [n] - See also: quickset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quicksets
Literary usage of Quicksets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Garden as Considered in Literature by Certain Polite Writers by Walter Howe (1890)
"OF FENCES AND quicksets. From " Silva." * OUR main plantation is now finished,
and our forest adorned with a just variety. But what is yet all this labor, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Management of Hedges, Hedge-row Timber by Francis Blaikie (1828)
"But as it frequently happens that the surface soil, or culti- Tated earth (into
which the quicksets ought to he laid when heaped upon the bank), ..."
3. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"8. it is recited, " That great The recited destruction having been made of hollies,
thorns, and quicksets, clause, &c. growing upon his majesty's forests ..."
4. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"Thorns or quicksets. 9 G. 1. G 22, SIMM to be levied and damages yielded, unless
the party offending shall, by such parish, town, hamlet, vill or place, ..."
5. Essays on the Management of the Dairy: Including the Modern Practice of the by Josiah Twamley (1816)
"Bat as it frequently happens that the surface soil, or cultivated earth (into
which the quicksets ought to be laid when heaped upon the bank), ..."
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