hedge-fence
111eodor — eodor2 m ( es/ eoderas) hedge, fence, boundary; limit, end, region, zone; enclosure, fold, dwelling, house; prince, sovereign, protector, lord …
112glind — m ( es/ as) hedge, fence …
113hege — m ( es/ as) hedge, fence …
114town — [OE] The ancestral meaning of town is ‘enclosed place’ – amongst its relatives are German zaun ‘hedge, fence’ and Old Irish dūn ‘fort, camp, fortified place’. Its Old English forerunner tūn was used for an ‘enclosure’ or ‘yard’, and also for a… …
115close — {{11}}close (adj.) late 14c., strictly confined, also secret, from O.Fr. clos confined; concealed, secret; taciturn (12c.), from L. clausus, pp. of claudere stop up, fasten, shut (see CLOSE (Cf. close) (v.)); main sense shifting to near (late 15c …
116negotiate — (v.) to communicate in search of mutual agreement, 1590s, back formation from NEGOTIATION (Cf. negotiation), or else from L. negotiatus, pp. of negotiari. In the sense of tackle successfully (1862), it at first meant to clear on horseback a hedge …
117prevaricate — verb you have prevaricated so often through this testimony that the truth has become unrecognizable Syn: be evasive, beat around the bush, hedge, fence, shilly shally, dodge (the issue), sidestep (the issue), equivocate, waffle; temporize, stall… …
118equivocate — v prevaricate, quibble, Sl. waffle, fudge, lie; evade, dodge, elude, weasel out, shuffle; shift, hedge, fence, beat around the bush; qualify, compromise, cop out; doubletalk, Inf. talk out of both sides of one s mouth, palter; backtrack, back… …
119tergiversate — v 1. vacillate, shilly shally, seesaw. Inf. flip flop, blow hot and cold, waver; shift, hedge, fence, beat around the bush; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble, Inf. waffle, fudge, palter, lie; evade, dodge, elude, weasel out, shuffle; qualify, trim …
120weasel — v Often weasel out get out of, Inf. worm out of, sneak out of, shuffle out of, Sl. sleaze out of; evade, get by or around, avoid, dodge, duck, fudge; hedge, fence, not commit oneself, equivocate, double talk, waffle, beat around the bush, skirt… …
