These are the meanings of the letters HAGWEED when you unscramble them.
- Hawed (imp. & p. p.)
of Haw
- Hedge (n.)
A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- Hedge (v. i.)
To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
- Hedge (v. i.)
To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
- Hedge (v. i.)
To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
- Hedge (v. t.)
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- Hedge (v. t.)
To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- Hedge (v. t.)
To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- Hedge (v. t.)
To surround so as to prevent escape.
- Hewed (imp.)
of Hew
- Hewed (p. p.)
of Hew
- Waged (imp. & p. p.)
of Wage
- Wedge (n.)
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
- Wedge (n.)
A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
- Wedge (n.)
A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- Wedge (n.)
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
- Wedge (n.)
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
- Wedge (v. t.)
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
- Wedge (v. t.)
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
- Wedge (v. t.)
To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
- Wedge (v. t.)
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
- Wedge (v. t.)
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- Wedge (v. t.)
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.