Synonyms of the word

hedgerow

• n. a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge.

fence

• n. A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
• n. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods,…
• n. Skill in oral debate.
• n. The art or practice of fencing.
• n. A guard or guide on machinery.
• n. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
• n. (computing, programming) A memory barrier.
• v. (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
• v. (transitive) To defend or guard.
• v. (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To engage in (the sport) fencing.
• v. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.

fencing

• v. present participle of fence.
• n. The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords…
• n. Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.

hedge

• n. A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two…
• n. (Britain, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes,…
• n. (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
• n. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing,…
• v. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
• v. (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
• v. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
• v. (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.