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hedger

/hej-er/US // ˈhɛdʒ ər //

绿篱,绿皮人,绿灯,绿篱的作用

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who makes or repairs hedges.
    • : a person who hedges in betting, speculating, etc.

Examples

  • A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.

  • But this restless Proteus masqueraded through a score of other characters—as seedsman, harvester, hedger and ditcher, etc.

  • I stood close to a hedger and ditcher, who, standing on a board, was cleaning out the mud that the water might run freely.

  • He would be laughed at that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger at past fifty.

  • One roughly cut the margins off his books with a knife, hacking away very much like a hedger and ditcher.