Bramble
['bræmb(ə)l] or ['bræmbl]
Definition
(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
(n.) The brambling or bramble finch.
Typist: Patricia
Definition
n. a wild prickly shrub bearing blackberries a blackberry bush: any rough prickly shrub.—ns. Bram′ble-berr′y Bram′ble-bush a collection of brambles growing together; Bram′ble-finch Bram′bling a bird nearly allied to the chaffinch.—adj. Bram′bly.
Typed by Alice
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil. Law suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you, or some of your family.
Checker: Lola
Examples
- A bramble caught hold of her skirt, and checked her progress. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The brambles grew thickly on either side of this second path. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The endless disputes whether or not some fifty species of British brambles are good species will cease. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She followed him behind the dell of brambles to his wheeled dwelling into which Venn mounted, placing the three-legged stool just within the door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A field overgrown with briars and brambles, may frequently produce as great a quantity of vegetables as the best cultivated vineyard or corn field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome and troublesome, and which we took to be brambles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That was myself--a furze-cutter, with brambles in his hand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Jaggers worked that in this way: We say these are not marks of finger-nails, but marks of brambles, and we show you the brambles. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Venn moved his elbow towards a hollow in which a dense brake of purple-stemmed brambles had grown to such vast dimensions as almost to form a dell. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Debra