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Meanings of cockle-bur in English

Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.

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Examples for "cocklebur"
Examples for "cocklebur"
1
The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur.
The Diamond Age
2
Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
The Diamond Age
3
It looked completely different from all the other mites, because, as a cocklebur, its sole job was to stick to whatever touched it first.
The Diamond Age
4
The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
The Diamond Age
5
And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
Cabbages and Kings
1
With the cockleburr crushing the wheat.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
2
But then these the righteous and put cockleburrs in the back hair of the godly.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
3
Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs.
Cabbages and Kings
4
That night he ripped open a corner of it and took out a handful of the cockleburrs.
Cabbages and Kings
5
"But more the cockleburr than the earbug, if the truth be known."
Ashes Of Victory
1
The mean, pusillanimous fever which took under-hold of me two months ago is still THERE, as impregnably fixed as a cockle-burr in a sheep's tail.
Sidney Lanier
Usage of cockle-bur in English
1
Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle-burs, some find no sheets at all.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
2
He was a mass of cockle-burs.
Crooked Trails
3
They render the farmer great service, by eating the cockle-burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...