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Meanings of
cockle-burr
in English
Any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs.
cocklebur
cockleburr
cockle-bur
Usage of
cockle-burr
in English
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.
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