English Dictionary

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.
Source : opted (71397)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (71400)  - auto

To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
Source : opted (71401)  - auto

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
Source : opted (71402)  - auto

To surround so as to prevent escape.
Source : opted (71403)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (71404)  - auto

To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Source : opted (71405)  - auto

To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Source : opted (71406)  - auto