furze
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- furzy adjective
Etymology
Origin of furze
before 1000; Middle English furse, firse, Old English fyr ( e ) s; akin to Russian pyréĭ couch grass, Greek pȳrós wheat, Lithuanian dialect pūraĩ winter wheat
Example Sentences
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He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes.
From Literature
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school.
From Literature
It is over five hundred feet high, and in autumn is a pyramid of crimson and gold; for wherever there are not trees or cultivation, there are furze and heath.
From Project Gutenberg
It lay quite close to the furze hedge, which ran in a straight line a long distance beyond where "Jamesy's bower" formed one of the angles of the garden.
From Project Gutenberg
A big furze bush cast a ragged square yard of alluring shade on the common.
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