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Meanings of cocklebur in English
Burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use.
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Examples for "cockleburr"
Examples for "cockleburr"
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With the cockleburr crushing the wheat.
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But then these the righteous and put cockleburrs in the back hair of the godly.
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Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs.
4
That night he ripped open a corner of it and took out a handful of the cockleburrs.
5
"But more the cockleburr than the earbug, if the truth be known."
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Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle-burs, some find no sheets at all.
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He was a mass of cockle-burs.
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They render the farmer great service, by eating the cockle-burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina.
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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.
Usage of cocklebur in English
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The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur.
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Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
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It looked completely different from all the other mites, because, as a cocklebur, its sole job was to stick to whatever touched it first.
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The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
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And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
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Nothing but maybe beggar-lice and cockleburs now.
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Mestral, a Swiss engineer, returned home after a walk in 1948 to find cockleburs stuck to his coat.
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After examining one under a microscope, he noted that cockleburs attach to clothes and fur via thin hooks.
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"Ye look like ye've got a cocklebur stuck betwixt your hurdies."
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To the sources previously mentioned may be added pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, raspberry seeds, tobacco seeds, cockleburs, hazelnuts, walnuts, beechnuts and acorns.
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