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Meanings of sloe in English
Spanish
arañón 
Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
Synonyms
Examples for "blackthorn"
Examples for "blackthorn"
1
In blackthorn the long-tailed tit builds the domed nest every one admires.
2
Hawthorn and blackthorn are two of our most welcome and useful plants.
3
He selected a blackthorn, twirled it, saluted, and posed before the mirror.
4
We carried blackthorn cudgels to protect us from gamekeepers, lords and dogs.
5
They would not let any one cut a blackthorn shoot on Hallowe'en.
1
The patient had swallowed a thorn of the Prunus spinosa (Linn.
Usage of sloe in English
1
Another drink that is equally enjoyable but for different reasons is sloe gin.
2
The leaves of the ash and the sloe are used to adulterate tea.
3
The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves.
4
The sloe-eyed gipsy children swinging on his gates were whipped down.
5
She had black, streaming hair, sloe eyes, and an arch expression.
6
Then I present the dark-haired, sloe-eyed Pythia, and Octavia gives a wistful sigh.
7
Skeffington's make jolly good sloe gin, but they can't arouse pity and terror.
8
And the sloe-eyed iron-thumpers would never again get sight of him!
9
She embraced us both, her sloe dark eyes glowing with love and excitement.
10
She couldn't bear his long sorrowful face and those sloe-shaped eyes.
11
The Messiah impaled on the tree was sloe-eyed and indecently naked.
12
The Spanish version of sloe gin, excellent and called pacheran, is widely on sale.
13
Gap-toothed and grinning, backlit by a sloe-eyed sun, unaware of what was to come.
14
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Use blackthorn berries to make sloe gin.
15
They can squeeze Bourdeaux out of the sloe, and draw Champagne from an apple.
16
This swarthy woman and her sloe-eyed husband favorably impressed Carley.
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United Kingdom
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