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Crossword-Solution: HEDGE 5 letters, 247 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Hedge n. 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.
Hedge v. t. 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.
Hedge v. t. To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from
progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
Hedge v. t. To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem
(in).
Hedge v. t. To surround so as to prevent escape.
Hedge v. i. 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.
Hedge v. i. To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the
side or chance one has bet on.
Hedge v. i. To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so
as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

We have 247 clues for the answer “HEDGE”

Clue Answers
A row of shrubs or bushes planted to form a boundary 1 answer
Ambiguous statement 1 answer
Avoid a definitive statement 1 answer
Avoid commitments. 1 answer
Backyard border, sometimes 1 answer
Barrier made of bushes 1 answer
Barrier made of shrubs 1 answer
Barrier of shrubs 1 answer
Be noncommittal 1 answer
Bet on both teams 1 answer
Betting strategy that reduces risk 1 answer
Border of green 1 answer
Border shrubbery 1 answer
Botanical fence 1 answer
Boundary bushes 1 answer
Boundary shrub 1 answer
Bush boundary 1 answer
Bush row 1 answer
Bushes forming a fence 1 answer
Clipped border 1 answer
Commitment Avoid 1 answer
Common nest locale 1 answer
Counter-wager. 1 answer
Counterbalance, as a bet 1 answer
Counterbalance, as an investment 1 answer
Counterbalance, financially 1 answer
Counterbet 1 answer
Do some landscaping work 1 answer
FENCE of turf 1 answer
FIELD boundary fence 1 answer
Fail to commit 1 answer
Fail to give a definitive answer 1 answer
Fence alternative 1 answer
Fence made of bushes 1 answer
Fence of bushes 1 answer
Fencing alternative 1 answer
Garden maze wall 1 answer
Gardener's alternative to a fence 1 answer
Give a noncommittal answer 1 answer
Green boundary 1 answer
Green fence 1 answer
Guard one's bets 1 answer
Hide behind words 1 answer
Hog or hop preceder 1 answer
Hog or row starter 1 answer
Inflation protection 1 answer
Intentionally vague statement 1 answer
Invest defensively 1 answer
Investment insurance 1 answer
Investor's insurance 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEDGE (5)

When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.” The Farmer and the Stork A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
South of the hill, in a low, sheltered swale, surrounded by a mulberry hedge, was the orchard, its fruit trees knee-deep in timothy grass.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
For some minutes I lay there in the rain and darkness watching, by the intermittent light, these monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance over the hedge tops.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Fortunately—as is usual in this part of France—the footpath was bordered by a low, rough hedge, beyond which was a dry ditch, filled with coarse grass.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with HEDGE (3)

You sneaked into my cabin?” Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two months. You can’t seriously be worried about getting in trouble with Coach Hedge.”“Uh, have you seen his baseball bat?”“Besides, Seaweed Brain, I just thought we could take a walk. We haven’t had any time to be together alone. I want to show you something — my favorite place aboard the ship.” Percy’s pulse was still in overdrive, but it wasn’t from fear of getting in trouble. “Can I, you …
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you've been here all night?""Frank!" Annabeth's ears were as red as strawberries. "We just came down here to talk. We fell asleep. Accidentally. That's it.""Kissed a couple of times," Percy said. Annabeth glared at him. "Not helping!
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. ... If it had at least enriched the earth; if it had given birth to… what? A hill? A rocket? But no. Nothing will have taken place. I can still see the hedge of hazel trees flurr…
Simone de Beauvoir Force Of Circumstance
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 211 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).