(a) A hedge; a fence of bushes or brushwood used to mark boundaries of fields, gardens, etc.; (b) a bush, underbrush; (c) a place surrounded by a hedge or fence, an enclosure; also, a pool formed by blocking a river; (d) a barricade, fortification; also fig.; (e) in cpds. & combs.: ~ bil, a billhook used for laying or maintaining hedgerows; ~ bote = heibote; ~ hogge, the European hedgehog; ~ makere, a hedger; ~ roue, a hedgerow; ~ roukere, hedge-squatter, one of the names of the hare; ~ silver = hegginge-silver; ~ slo, ?a sloe; ~ wode, wood for making hedges; ~ yard, an enclosure; (f) in surnames; (g) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.240].