To obstruct or surround.
To offset the risk associated with.
To construct or repair a hedge.
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To reduce one's exposure to risk.
To avoid verbal commitment.
Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
To be painful.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
Wounded, physically injured.
Pained.
A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.