Definitions

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  • adjective Having no hedge.

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  • adjective Without hedges.

Etymologies

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hedge +‎ -less

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Examples

  • In every little Fen village along the endless hedgeless roads they are looking out for the night-flier.

    The phantom airships of 1909 2008

  • In every little Fen village along the endless hedgeless roads they are looking out for the night-flier.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • Enormous hedgeless fields slide by, half flooded by the recent rains and in poor heart, the flatness relieved only by rusting dumps of derelict machinery and the hulks of abandoned factories, their windows so diligently smashed by some local Cromwell that hardly a whole pane survives.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Enormous hedgeless fields slide by, half flooded by the recent rains and in poor heart, the flatness relieved only by rusting dumps of derelict machinery and the hulks of abandoned factories, their windows so diligently smashed by some local Cromwell that hardly a whole pane survives.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • He stared out upon hedgeless, well-cultivated fields intersected by roads, each lined with cable-bearing red poles.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • The route thither is hedgeless and treeless — I need not add deserted.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • The wide concave of cloud, of the monotonous hue of dull pewter, formed an unbroken hood over the level from horizon to horizon; beneath it, reflecting its wan lustre, was the glazed high-road which stretched, hedgeless and ditchless, past a directing-post where another road joined it, and on to the less regular ground beyond, lying like a riband unrolled across the scene, till it vanished over the furthermost undulation.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • Yet the continuity, flesh to kindred metals, home to hedgeless sea, has persisted.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • The miles upon miles of open gray-green country, treeless, hedgeless, houseless, swoop toward one another with the strangest sinuosities and rifts and knobs of volcanic earth, till at last they sink in faint mists, only to rise again in pink and blue distances, so far off, so pale and aërial, that they can scarcely be distinguished from the atmosphere itself.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Brigadier (General Pagan) had visited and approved the dispositions, an order from Corps was received to retreat a mile and to dig trenches across the open, hedgeless fields which stretched between Robecq and

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

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