thicket

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Thicket (disambiguation) .

“Knock on the bush” - hunter combing through an island of wood during a drive hunt in France

A thicket (outdated Thick , derived from thick ) is a dense bush or undergrowth ( Latin densa arborum , English thicket ). In an encyclopedia from 1774 it is said that a thicket is in “hunting and forestry, a dense or thick place in a forest which is heavily overgrown with undergrowth; the thicket , in Upper German the dicket. ” Metaphorically , thicket is also used for an impenetrable tangle.

Thickets form their own habitats and are referred to as forest, swamp or reed thickets , depending on their nature and environment.

An artificially (since ancient times for mounting purposes ) scale thicket, an abatis or mess or a Hague be a thick impenetrable hedge, as a protective, a place surrounding thicket, which consists mostly of thorny bushes.

etymology

The word has been traced back to the 17th century and comes from the hunter's language , “a thicket is common among hunters as a hazel thicket, beech spruce and pine thicket.” It can also refer to other “thick” plants such as the cane thicket .

The word jungle (originally jangal , mediated by English jungle ) is largely synonymous with this; it describes an "(apparently) impenetrable thicket", but simply means "wilderness" in Hindi .

See also

• Thickening

Fiction and Art (selection)

• Ibn al-Athīr : Usd al-ghâba ( Eng . The Lions of the Thicket ).
• Bertolt Brecht : In the thicket of the cities . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-10246-X .
• Painting by Iwan Iwanowitsch Schischkin : "The Thicket"

Web links

Wiktionary: Thicket  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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1. ↑ Johann Christoph Adelung : The thicket . In: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect: with constant comparison of the other dialects, but especially the Upper German . 2nd, increased and improved edition. tape 1 : A-E . Olms, Hildesheim / New York 1970, p. 1481 ( woerterbuchnetz.de - based on the 1st edition 1774).
2. ↑ Hague . In: Polyglott Lexicon: Being a New Dictionary . tape 2 . W. Tegg, and Company, London 1848, p. 1805 ( books.google.de ).
3. ↑ Thicket, usually thicket. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860, Sp. 1081-1082 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
4. ↑ Thicket . In: Johann Georg Krünitz (Ed.): Economic Encyclopedia . 9th part: De-Dy. J. Pauli, Berlin 1776, p. 228 ( books.google.de ).
5. ↑ Schischkin, Iwan Iwanowitsch: Das Dickicht zeno.org.