Quick! A question!

[desperance]

So I had cause to enquire online about definitions of quick the noun, and I found - inter alia - this:

Chiefly British .
a.
a line of shrubs or plants, especially of hawthorn, forming a hedge.
b.
a single shrub or plant in such a hedge.


Now I am in fact chiefly British, and I have never come across this usage. Is this just my gardeny ignorance? Do people talk all the time about a quick of hawthorn? I think it's rather lovely, but it's utterly new to me.

Comments

[flick]

Not in the Peaks, they don't. May be a Southerner thing?

[hunningham]

How about a quickset hedge? That's one I have come across. I think you can have a quickset hedge, or a laid hedge but am extremely vague about the meanings.