Hedge-breaking

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  1. 1
    The crime of cutting and taking away branches of a hedge. uncountable

    "Might she not, being perhaps accustomed to Hedge-breaking her self, be able to inform her, that there were no Sticks to be had at Cromer?"

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"Might she not, being perhaps accustomed to Hedge-breaking her self, be able to inform her, that there were no Sticks to be had at Cromer?"

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