thumb|upright=1.35|Hedge laid in Midland style thumb|upright=1.35|A hedge about three years after being re-laid
thumb|upright=1.35|Hedge laid in Midland style thumb|upright=1.35|A hedge about three years after being re-laid
Hedgelaying (or hedge laying) is the process of partially cutting through and then bending the stems of a line of shrubs or small trees, near ground level, without breaking them, so as to encourage them to produce new growth from the base and create a living ‘stock proof fence’. It is a countryside skill that has been practised for centuries, mainly in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with many regional variations in style and technique.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).