Meaning of Quicken | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
   Ireland, Northern-England
2. Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
   Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken at the edges and small green haws to show.”

“Quickens-bog may at first seem to derive its name from the plant Quicken, by which, Scotticé, we understand couch-grass, dog-grass, or the Triticum repens of [Carl] Linnæus, and the common English monosyllable Bog, by which we mean, in popular language, a marsh or morass; in Latin, Palus.”

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