briar
1Other words from briar
- bri·ar·y, adjective
Words Nearby briar
Other definitions for briar (2 of 2)
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How to use briar in a sentence
On, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.
The Underworld | James C. WelshUnmistakably, up from the paper rose the strong, vivid scent—of a briar-wood pipe.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottAll England hath paid his taxes with my patrimony: I was a sheep that left my wool on every briar.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis StevensonHe loiters with the briar rose,— The blue-belles are his play-fellows,That dance upon their slender stem.
The Book of Humorous Verse | VariousMy coat was torn on a briar; I fired my gun at a crow as I went over the fields to my cottage.
A Life Sentence | Adeline Sergeant
British Dictionary definitions for briar (1 of 2)
brier
/ (ˈbraɪə) /
Also called: tree heath an ericaceous shrub, Erica arborea, of S Europe, having a hard woody root (briarroot)
a tobacco pipe made from the root of this plant
Origin of briar
1Derived forms of briar
- briary or briery, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for briar (2 of 2)
/ (ˈbraɪə) /
a variant spelling of brier 1
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