Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
cleat . - noun The burdock: same as
clot-bur , 1. - noun The yellow water-lily, Nuphar lutea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The common burdock; the clotbur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The common
burdock ; theclotbur .
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Examples
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Then for want of cuckoo-pint, or priest-pintle, lousebur, clote, and paper, we made ourselves false faces with the leaves of an old Sextum that had been thrown by and lay there for anyone that would take it up, cutting out holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then for want of cuckoo-pint, or priest-pintle, lousebur, clote, and paper, we made ourselves false faces with the leaves of an old Sextum that had been thrown by and lay there for anyone that would take it up, cutting out holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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_ Bardane la grande; _The burre-dock_, _clote_, _bur_, _great burre_.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Then for want of cuckoo-pint, or priest-pintle, lousebur, clote, and paper, we made ourselves false faces with the leaves of an old Sextum that had been thrown by and lay there for anyone that would take it up, cutting out holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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