Bramley

Bramley's seedling

/ (ˈbræmlɪ) /

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noun

a variety of cooking apple having juicy firm flesh

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Word Origin for Bramley

C19: named after Matthew Bramley, 19th-century English butcher, said to have first grown it

Words nearby Bramley

Bramante, bramble, brambleberry, brambling, brambly, Bramley, Brampton, Bramwell, bran, Branagh, branch

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How to use Bramley in a sentence

The experiments have dealt with dwarf trees of Bramley, Cox and Potts, six trees of each variety constituting one investigation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3|Various
I wrote to you December 29th, and sent you a silk scarf in a parcel that poor Doctor Bramley was sending home to his wife.
Miss Eden's Letters|Emily Eden
From Shalford Common the road runs almost straight to Bramley.
Highways and Byways in Surrey|Eric Parker
Bramley; which concludes with:—'for with men whaym God drawes to heven thai sal nought be swongen, but with fendes in hell.'
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales|Geoffrey Chaucer

C, Bramley-fall stone base, with a chain of wrought iron let into it.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure