- a variation of brierroot.
briarroot
Americannoun
noun
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the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes
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any of several other woods used to make tobacco pipes
Example Sentences
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"We would be wuss nor fools if we did—with them human wildcats a—watchin' of us," and he began to puff vigorously at his short stump of a briarroot pipe.
From The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine by Stratemeyer, Edward
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