Thicket
['θɪkɪt]
Definition
(a.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Inputed by Jules
Synonyms and Synonymous
Grove, copse, wood, forest, jungle, brake.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Copse, grove, wood, jungle, forest
ANT:Open_place, cleared_place, prairie
Typed by Lisa
Examples
- Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Tell me, if you see the thicket move firSt. 'Nay, I would have you lead. Plato. The Republic.
- Here, in a thicket of stunted oaks, her verandahs spread themselves above the island-dotted waters. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But yonder thicket is a choice chapel for the Clerks of Saint Nicholas. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The buried forest and thickets were not all changed into coal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I hovered for ever around the walls of its Castle, beneath its enshadowing thickets; my sole companions were my books and my loving thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Barlow pushed forward with great vigor, under a heavy fire of both artillery and musketry, through thickets and swamps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Edited by Clio