hedge A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges that are used to separate a road from adjoini ...

is a line of closely spaced shrubs planted to act as a barrier or boundary. Hedge or Hedges may also refer to:

Places

Hedges, California Hedges, later renamed Tumco, is a locale, a ghost town, site of a former mining town, in Imperial County, California. It lies at an elevation of along the Tumco Wash in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. Nearby is the Hedges Cemetery at an elevati ...

, a former mining town in Imperial County, California, United States * Hedging, Somerset, a

location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

in England * Hedges, Washington, unincorporated community in Benton County, Washington, United States * The Hedges, a historic building in New York state

People and fictional characters

* Hedge (surname), a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters) *

Hedges (surname) Hedges is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew H. Hedges (born 1966), American church historian * Anthony Hedges (1931–2019), British composer * Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, American writer * Austin Hedges (born 1 ...

, a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters) *

Hedge Thompson Hedge Thompson (January 28, 1780 - July 23, 1828), a Representative from New Jersey. Thompson was born in Salem, New Jersey on January 28, 1780. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1802 a ...

(1780–1828), American politician from New Jersey *

Hedges Eyre Chatterton Hedges Eyre Chatterton (5 July 1819 – 30 August 1910) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Ireland. Biography He was born in Cork, the eldest son of Abra ...

(1819-1910), Irish politician *

Hedges Worthington-Eyre Hedges Worthington-Eyre (8 September 1899 – 20 October 1979) was a British sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zo ...

(1899–1979), British sprinter *

Hedge (character) This is a list of characters from '' The Old Kingdom Series'', a set of novels by Australian author Garth Nix. The series comprises six novels: ''Sabriel'' (1995), ''Lirael'' (2001), ''Abhorsen'' (2003), ''Clariel'' (2014), ''Goldenhand'' (2016) a ...

, a fictional character in the ''Old Kingdom'' series of novels

Other uses

Hedge (finance) A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insu ...

, an investment made to limit loss **

Hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

, a type of investment fund *

Hedge (linguistics) In the linguistic sub-fields of applied linguistics and pragmatics, a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity, probability, caution, or indecisiveness about the remainder of the sentence, rather than full accuracy, certain ...

, intentionally non-committal or ambiguous sentence fragments * ''

Maclura pomifera ''Maclura pomifera'', commonly known as the Osage orange ( ), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It typically grows about tall. The distinctive fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, b ...

'' or Osage orange tree, often called a hedge in the United States

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People and fictional characters

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