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Meanings of furze in English
Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
Synonyms
Examples for "gorse"
Examples for "gorse"
1
The gorse and the broom were a fine accent in the landscape.
2
Firefighters put out a major gorse blaze in west Belfast this morning.
3
Unfortunately, it was gorse, so my hand was impaled by the thorns.
4
The noise spread through the gallery as a fire spreads through gorse.
5
A large gorse fire has broken out near Bray in Co Wicklow.
1
The warm sweet smell of the whin bloom was in the air.
2
Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin-bushes.
3
Well, as I said, whin five months had gone by they met.
4
An' whin we got up to the top of the city, 'Mrs.
5
Mariar she used ter live thar whin Mis' Celie wus a baby.
Usage of furze in English
1
The birds flirted up and down the hawthorn bushes and furze brakes.
2
Heath and furze were the sole vegetation which covers this endless wilderness.
3
Brushing some spikes of furze off my hands, I prepared for it.
4
Did you see any one as you came through the furze bushes?
5
He owned a round, ruddy face with a white furze of beard.
6
The man gave the furze, and the pig built his house.
7
He had blue lips, eyes looking crossways and eyebrows like a furze bush.
8
Hamilton and Little Fellow, talking loudly and gesticulating, rode crashing through the furze.
9
Then through a gate we came on to the moor, amongst whitened furze.
10
And where there was a hedge, it would probably be furze or whins.
11
A twisted runner of furze lashed across his ankle, and he fell again.
12
The humble furze bush or whin was collected and ground down to shreds.
13
She brushed herself, she picked bits of furze from her dress.
14
Shall I look in the furze there, sir, afore we go?
15
The furze of his beard tickled my nose, perhaps for the last time.
16
There was one gap in the furze at the mouth of a tributary ghyll.
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Furze across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common