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Meanings of cockle-burr 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
        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...
        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.
        Sidney Lanier