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- noun archaic Colletively, the branches of a tree
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Examples
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She stared up through the branchwork of willow and elm, listening to her breath and taking her pulse from within.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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She stared up through the branchwork of willow and elm, listening to her breath and taking her pulse from within.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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She stared up through the branchwork of willow and elm, listening to her breath and taking her pulse from within.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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As a river flows over its fan it commonly divides into a branchwork of shifting channels called DISTRIBUTARIES, since they lead off the water from the main stream.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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By the furrowing action of the rain wash and the head ward lengthening, of tributaries a branchwork of drainage channels grows until it covers the entire area, and not an acre is left on which the fallen raindrop does not find already cut for it an uninterrupted downward path which leads it on by way of gully, brook, and river to the sea.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Claverhouse! "sighed Edith;" root and branchwork is the mildest of his expressions.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Claverhouse! "sighed Edith;" root and branchwork is the mildest of his expressions.
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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“You are lost — you are lost, if you are to plead your cause with Claverhouse!” sighed Edith; “root and branchwork is the mildest of his expressions.
Old Mortality 2004
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