what is the meaning of the word hedge?
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"Hedge" can be used as a verb:\n1. to refuse to answer directly: Here you go! You´re hedging again;\n2. to make a hedge around a field (= to encircle).\n\nAs a noun, it means:\n1. a row of bushes or small trees that separates a garden from another;\n2. protection: Buying a home will certainly be a hedge against devaluation.
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I have seen it used, but cannot find it in any dictionary.  It seems to be used "as in a liberal sense" or using prudence in a poetic license context.
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Stock in this context means: an amount of these snacks, a supply of these snacks.\n\nIt is being used in the same way that someone might say that squirrels stock up on nuts for the winter, .... or that it is wise to stock up of non-perishables while they are on sale.
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Maybe this site can help. \nhttp://www.businesschambers.com/sh.cfm?sq=Hedge%20Fund%20Analyst
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It means that a simple tried, tested and reliable solution will usually be able to cope with most problems. The fox is cunning, and can try many different forms of attack - however the hedgehog knows that all it has to do is curl into a ball, and it will be safe from whatever the fox tries.\nCan't help with the origins though.
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The word you are looking for is "pedigree".
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Sow\n\nIt means to plant things
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In what context was the word used?
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laid.\n\nLayed isn't a word.  Lain is the past of lie not lay.
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It's a plural word usually - les cheveux.  Not to be confused with les chevaux, which means Horses.  Singular is le cheveu, basically that's a strand of hair.
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The word is "fore"\n\nIt began, back when golf courses were not the manicured gardens that you see today. They often had lots of long grass. So it was easy to lose your ball.\n\nThey had "fore caddies" meaning, front caddie. Usually a young land who would go way out in front and watch where the ball landed. If in the long grass he had a good chance of seeing exactly where it landed.\n\nWhen the golfer hit his shot, seeing that it is headed for the long grass, he would yell "fore" to alert the fore caddy.\n\nToday of course it is used to alert another golfer that a projectile is headed his way and in a hurry.
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It could mean a lot of things, depending on the context.\n\nOne common usage means "to hold back", as in "She needed a way to stem the tide of emails asking her for a date."  Actually, "stem the tide" is common enough that it basically is a unit all its own.\n\nBut it can also mean "remove the stem of" as in a flower, or to "put a stem on", or in linguistics, to get the most basic form of the word.\n\nThere are lots of online dictionaries which help with this sort of thing:\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=stem\nhttp://www.m-w.com/dictionary/stem
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It's cockney rhyming slang - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang\n\n\n\nTo "Pop" is the slang word for "Pawn". Weasel is derived from "weasel and stoat" meaning coat. It was traditional for even poor people to own a suit, which they wore as their 'Sunday Best'. When times were hard they would pawn their suit, or coat, on a Monday and claim it back before Sunday. Hence the term " Pop goes the Weasel"
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hibernation is .\nZoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.  \n2. to withdraw or be in seclusion; retire.  \n3. to winter in a place with a milder climate
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This is a delightful British term that means doing your best to get on with it, despite the odds being stacked against you. It doesn't mean you're winging it, it means you're doing your best in a bad situation. or having a 'stiff upper lip' and steely resolve, which all us brits love to do!
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Rick:  A stack of hay, straw, or similar material, especially when covered or thatched for protection from the weather.  In the context of the sentence from "Bleak House," it would seem to mean a yard full of ricks:\n\n"Beyond the flower-garden was a kitchen-garden, and then a paddock, and then a snug little rick-yard, and then a dear little farm-yard."
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.