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bramble

[ bram-buhl ]

noun

  1. any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
  2. British. the common blackberry.
  3. any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.


verb (used without object)

, bram·bled, bram·bling.
  1. British. to look for and gather wild blackberries; pick blackberries from the vine.

bramble

/ ˈbræmbəl /

noun

  1. any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus , esp the blackberry See also stone bramble
    1. a blackberry
    2. ( as modifier )

      bramble jelly

  2. any of several similar and related shrubs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to gather blackberries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈbrambly, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bramble1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bræmbel, variant of brǣmel, equivalent to brǣm- (cognate with Dutch braam broom ) + -el noun suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bramble1

Old English brǣmbel ; related to Old Saxon brāmal , Old High German brāmo
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Example Sentences

We lost the sense of mindful intention that comes with changing out of loungewear and into bottoms built not for comfort but for standing up to the rocks and brambles of the outdoors—or for going to an office.

They found holes in a wall of thick brambles, and splashed through streams.

From Fortune

Police speculate she traveled almost one mile through bramble before she died.

Weed-grown, bramble-infested fields lay cleared of dbris, that had been gathered into heaps and burned.

As she listened, there flitted through her mind the vision of Liff Hyatt's muddy boot coming down on the white bramble-flowers.

But in Shakespeare's time it was evidently confined to the Blackberry-bearing Bramble.

I here join together the tree and the fruit, the Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and the Blackberry.

They made the thorn to spring up where the fir-tree had flourished, and the bramble instead of the myrtle tree.

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