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单词 blackthorn leaf
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blackthorn leaf
C1. General attributive, as blackthorn bush, blackthorn leaf, blackthorn tree, etc.; instrumental, as blackthorn-fleeced adj.
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1596 A. T. Rich Store-house ii. f. 57v Take Piony-rootes one handfull, and a handfull of Mistleto that groweth in a Blackthorne Tree.
1604 N. Breton Passionate Shepheard (1877) 10/2 And for her teeth, no Granam studdes, Nor like the Knagges of Blacke-thorne buddes.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 249 [He] first laid at the bottom green Black-thorn bushes, and on them a stratum of large round stones.
1759 T. Perfect Pract. of Gardening 21 When the seeds are covered, lay two or three pieces of blackthorn bush upon the bed.
1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. (1778) 13 Oct. Yesterday I set a young lad,—but he is expert,—to trim the ditch-side of a rough black-thorn hedge.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 40 Tea, madam!—I saw none—Ash leaves and black-thorn leaves were brought in.
1887 All Year Round 28 May 444/1 The birds are singing bravely,..with soloists warbling and flourishing from the blackthorn hedge.
1948 C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–7 84 Walking by blackthorn-fleeced Hedges to church.
1950 Times 30 Mar. 8/3 Blackthorn blossom hides many an early mist, and from behind its solid ramparts one has heard, in April, the nightingale's first notes.
1992 New Yorker 11 May 33/2 I nearly took my blackthorn stick and smashed the thing to atoms.
2004 Wildlife News May 10/1 (caption) Black hairstreak, found in the blackthorn ‘brakes’.
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