brierwood
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brierwood
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While the captain was talking, he sat modestly in the background, smoking his brierwood, listening as intently as if everything said was new to him.
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Turning, she saw her husband puffing away at his brierwood pipe.
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
Supplying ourselves with the primal necessities of stout sticks and brierwood pipes we set out.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
This individual wore a check suit of the latest London cut, big broad-soled Piccadilly shoes, and smoked a brierwood pipe which he constantly filled from a rubber pouch carried in his waistcoat pocket.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
With a heaping bowl of egg-nog beside him, and his brierwood between his lips, the coal magnate beat time on the bedspread with a fast-failing strength, while he grinned happily at Sheila.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
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