Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wood of the brier-root, used for making tobacco-pipes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun wood from the hard woody root of the briar
Erica arborea ; it is used to make tobacco pipes. See also 2ndbrier and brier root.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes
- noun wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes
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Examples
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I drew out my brierwood pipe and consoled myself with a smoke; for among my other military accomplishments I had acquired the habit of smoking.
The end of an era, 1899
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Turning, she saw her husband puffing away at his brierwood pipe.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883
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"Times are getting lively in these parts," remarked Weber, as he filled his brierwood and lit it; "this thing can't go on forever; the rustlers or cowmen have got to come out on top, and I'm shot if one can tell just now which it will be."
Cowmen and Rustlers A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Hazletine produced a brierwood pipe and pressed some tobacco in the bowl.
Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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He had never been addicted to drink, and his only indulgence was his brierwood pipe, which was his almost inseparable companion.
Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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Felix nodded in dismissal, rested his elbows on the table, and again puffed away at his brierwood.
Felix O'Day Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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Picking up his brierwood, lying on a pile of books on his desk, and within reach of his hand, he started to fill the bowl, when a scrap of paper covered with
Tides of Barnegat Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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The moon had already risen when Bradley, with his brierwood pipe, preceded Richardson upon the veranda.
A Phyllis of the Sierras Bret Harte 1869
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Unearned correlational art guts methodist brierwood, cheerless inexterminable maiolica, irreparable agama, nasal freeware.
Rational Review 2009
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John drove over to meet the Honourable Cornelius, who was in a terrible state of anxiety and left him no peace on the way asking him again and again to repeat the answers to the questions which had been proposed, reckoning up the ones he had answered wrong and the ones he thought he might have answered right, and coming each time to a different conclusion, finally lighting a huge brierwood pipe and swearing "that it was a beastly shame to subject human beings to such awful torture."
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