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Meanings of cockleburr in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "cocklebur"
Examples for "cocklebur"
1
The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur.
2
Under Hackworth's direction he rotated the cocklebur until a small spine-free patch came into view.
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.
4
The cockleburs had already self-destructed, leaving no evidence of his crime.
5
And now to the uproar was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood.
1
Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle-burs, some find no sheets at all.
2
He was a mass of cockle-burs.
3
They render the farmer great service, by eating the cockle-burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina.
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.
Usage of cockleburr in inglés
1
With the cockleburr crushing the wheat.
2
But then these the righteous and put cockleburrs in the back hair of the godly.
3
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."
6
"My name is Pinkney Dawson," said the cornerer of the cockleburr market.
7
At the end of ten days two-thirds of the stock of shoes had been sold; and the stock of cockleburrs was exhausted.
8
"Was it your earbug or a certain six-limbed cockleburr?"