Hedge vs. Ledge — What's the Difference?

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 used to separate a road from adjoining fields or one field from another, and of sufficient age to incorporate larger trees, are known as hedgerows.

A horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall.

A row of closely planted shrubs or low-growing trees forming a fence or boundary.

A cut or projection forming a shelf on a cliff or rock wall.

A line of people or objects forming a barrier

An underwater ridge or rock shelf.

A means of protection or defense, especially against financial loss

A level of rock-bearing ore; a vein.

A securities transaction that reduces the risk on an existing investment position.

A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement.

(geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

A word or phrase, such as possibly or I think, that mitigates or weakens the certainty of a statement.

A layer or stratum.

To enclose or bound with or as if with hedges.

A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

To hem in, hinder, or restrict with or as if with a hedge.

(architecture) A (door or window) lintel.

To minimize or protect against the loss of by counterbalancing one transaction, such as a bet, against another.

(architecture) A cornice.

To plant or cultivate hedges.

(shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

To take compensatory measures so as to counterbalance possible loss.

A provincial or territorial legislature building.

To avoid making a clear, direct response or statement.

A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

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.

(uncommon) To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).

A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.

A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

A layer or stratum.

(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

(transitive) To obstruct or surround.

To offset the risk associated with.

(ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.

(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.

To reduce one's exposure to risk.

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.

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.

To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

To surround so as to prevent escape.

To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party.

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.

To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement;

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge;

Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges;

Minimize loss or risk;