Obs. [f. QUICKSET sb.1] trans. To furnish (plant, enclose, etc.) with a quickset hedge. Also absol.

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1508.  in Cal. Doc. Scotl. (1888), 351. [To] diche, quyk set, enclose, and dyvyde into clausures the boundes of Berwyk.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 123. It is lesse cost for hym … to quyck set dyche and hedge.

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1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 113. Bankes newly quicksetted, some weeding doo craue.

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1632.  Earl of Cork, Diary, in Lismore Papers, Ser. I. (1886), III. 166. Enclosing and quicksetting the lands.

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1672.  Petty, Pol. Anat. (1691), 14. Gardens and Orchards, ditch’d and quicksetted.

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  Hence † Quicksetting vbl. sb. Obs.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 124. If thou haue pastures, thou muste nedes haue quyckesettynge, dychynge and plasshynge.

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1541.  Nottingham Rec., III. 390. Dykyng and quycksettyng of the Long Hedge.

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