Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
- noun plural Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
- noun plural Reef points.
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- noun Plural form of
nettle . - noun nautical Small lengths of
cord attached to asail , used to secure the excess fabric afterreefing ; reef points
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It is my opinion that enabling an email address to be used as a “hint” that resolves to a valid OpenID URL is a necessary step to dislodge one of the main nettles against OpenID.
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[...] is my opinion that enabling an email address to be used as a “hint” that resolves to a valid OpenID URL is a necessary step to dislodge one of the main nettles [...]
Announcing Emailtoid: mapping email addresses to OpenIDs | FactoryCity 2008
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Stinging nettles may also be called nettles, they usually grow wild near fresh water, but also appear as weeds in gardens, use gloves to pick them!
At My Table 2006
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Even the juice o 'nettles, which is common enough, drunk three times a day will kill any germ o' cancer, while it'll set up the blood as fresh an 'bright as iver.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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Alædeus of Padua, recommends flagellation with green nettles, that is, urtication, to be performed on the limbs of young children for the purpose of hastening the eruption of the small pox.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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The nettles are a kind of milky white, Anderson said.
News 2010
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He had to sift through one or two leaves labelled nettles to find a needle.
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They will then turn all the Earth into a slave colony where we will spend the rest of our lives growing nettles which is the food of choice for Kingon-Vesuvians, as well as the Makers Mark Bourbon which is their drink of choice.
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Not all of these many flowers and shrubs could be grown in our climate, some mentioned, such as nettles, burdocks, plantains and other weeds, would be entirely out of place in a garden, soon overrunning it.
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But the best source of silica is usually something that we dont have in health food stores, such as nettles, or something like horsetail, or something like hemp leaf.
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