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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
birdlime .
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Examples
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I never expected [MS torn] another friend, & yet chance has birdlimed me to one in a most odd manner.
Letter 257 1797
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As the poor Flutterer, who by hard struggling has escaped from the birdlimed thorn-bush, still bears the clammy Incumbrance on his feet and wings, so am I doomed to carry about with me the sad mementos of past Imprudence and Anguish from which I have been imperfectly released.
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