hedge-breaking

English

Noun

hedge-breaking (uncountable)

  1. The crime of cutting and taking away branches of a hedge.
    • 1712, The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider'd, London, page 13:
      Might she not, being perhaps accustomed to Hedge-breaking her self, be able to inform her, that there were no Sticks to be had at Cromer?
    • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 8:
      But the holiday was for all, the rapture of awakening Nature for all, the various outdoor joys of puddles and sun and hedge-breaking for all.
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