quickset

1. 1.

   cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines

   “a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard”

   Broadercutting

1. 1.

   grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground

   “a quickset hawthorn hedge”

   Similarplanted

Other forms of quickset

plural

quicksets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quickset

What does quickset mean?

quickset means "cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quickset?

quickset has 2 syllables: quick-set. The stress falls on "quick".

Is quickset a common word?

quickset is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.