Word Meaning

Meaning of "hedged" and the crossword clue

- A barrier
- Barrier
- Barrier of bushes
- Bush
- Clipped plant border
- Equivocate
- Fence of bushes
- Garden divider
- Growing divide between garden neighbours
- Laughed genially when taking in garden barrier
- Leafy windbreak
- Property divider
- Refuse to commit oneself
- Row of bushes
- Row of shrubs
- Type of fund that takes root in borders
- vacillate
- Windbreak
- Avoided decision
- Behaved like a fund manager and was laid off
- Fenced with bushes
- Guarded against risk or loss
- Hindu leader crept along and avoided answering the question
- A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- To surround so as to prevent escape.
- To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
- To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
- To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
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