hedge

Meaning

1. A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
3. A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
4. A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
5. Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
6. Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

hedge

fence

hedging

evade

hedgerow

enclosure

dodge

fudge

barrier

wall

circumvent

duck

parry

hinder

paling

fencing

beat around the bush

equivocate

delay

palisade

stall

elude

put off

sidestep

skirt

hedge in

border

enclose

surround

obfuscate

prevaricate

hem and haw

dally

hesitate

hold back affectedly

linger

tarry

turn aside

rampart

bramble

bush

grove

shrub

shrubbery

thicket

espalier

temporize

clandestine

inferior

shuffle

hedging transaction

insure

railing

boundary

frontier

limit

block

choke up

clog

dam

endiguer

pliant hedge

quick fence

fort

stockade

hide

fence in

rail

rail in

rail off

browse

circuit

circulate

move around

rove

swan

tergiversate

tour

travel

vagabond

covering

hunker down

pruning shears

secateurs

obstacle

obstruction

bulwark

hurdle

pilerow

cut hair

barber

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɛd͡ʒ/

From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of hey (a choreographic figure) and quay. More at haw.