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Quotation dates: 1653
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(Quikset,) Quickset, ppl. adj. [Cf. e.m.E. quykset(te v. (1508) to furnish with a quickset hedge, n. (1484) live cuttings planted to form a quickset hedge, etc.] Of a slip or cutting: Planted live. — 1653 Urquhart Rabelais (1900) i xi 56.
One of them would call it [Gargantua's penis] … her staff of love [etc.] … another her peen … her quickset imp
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