hare's-foot

British  

noun

1. Also called: hare's-foot clover. a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers

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hare's-foot

He showed the hare's-foot with which he brushed the particles of gold from the table and the skin spread on his knees to receive them.

From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

They put also under the children the down of certain reeds that we call hare's-foot, on which they rest very softly.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis

She took the hare's-foot and came to Echo coaxingly.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

She touched up her cheeks with a hare's-foot while she talked.

From Fair Margaret A Portrait by Horace T. Carpenter

There were chairs and table and a couch, a small stand for a pile of magazines, a bookcase containing some medical works, and a sprawling hare’s-foot fern in a large flowerpot by the window.

From The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees