FromOld Englishheċġ, fromProto-West Germanic*haggju. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

• egge,eygge,heddge,hedge,heg,hege,hegg,heggg

• IPA^(key):/ˈhɛd͡ʒ(ə)/

hegge (pluralhegges)

1. Ahedge; a plant grown as a boundary.
   • late 14th century,Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale,The Canterbury Tales, line 4405-4408:

     A col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee,
     That in the grove hadde woned yeres three,
     By heigh imaginacioun forn-cast,
     The same night thurgh-out thehegges brast [...]

     A fox, full of sly iniquity,
     That in the grove had dwelled three years,
     By exalted imagination predestined,
     The same night through thehedges broke [...]

2. Abush orshrub; a stout or short woody plant.
3. (rare) An enclosure; a fenced-off or bounded area.
4. (rare) A fortress; a redoubt.

   (Can wefind and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

• heggen
• heggynge

• English:hedge
• Scots:hedge

• “heǧǧe,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-07-24.

hegge

1. Alternative form ofheggen

• hägge

Fromhekto(“hectogram”).

hegge n

1. (slang) ahectogram (usually of cannabis)

   Synonym:hekto

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