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Blackberry jam for one in authority
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bramble
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At this time brambles are dormant, the sap is within the ground and the brambles themselves have become dry. ▪ He rearranged the brambles, got back on his bike, and pedalled round to the mill yard. ▪ He skipped over roots and ...
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The Bramble is a cocktail created by Dick Bradsell in 1980s London, England. Best described as a spring cocktail, the Bramble brings together dry gin , lemon juice, sugar syrup and crème de mûre . Bradsell also suggests finishing off the cocktail with some ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (label en British) Common blackberry.
Usage examples of bramble.
Galloping over the few patches that the starblaze showed comparatively free of traps, walking again, forcing the reluctant beasts through thick patches of bramble, on and on, until the whole world seemed to shake and the noise was a thousand hammers beating on them, a noise so pervasive it was around them as solid as the air slamming against them.
The black stretched on and on, then there was grass and bramble and trees whose leaves were withered by heat but otherwise intact.
Holding his breath, he ran on until he broke through the interlacing branches, and found himself in a little, clearing with the hounds all crowding round a patch of tangled bramble at the further end.
The brush here was mostly sumac and redbud, with waist-high tangles of bramble and clumps of pine that rose above his head.
I stepped on a bramble and let out a yell that probably brought Grunc straight up off his couch.
If I were a true witch, the bramble would have moved out of our path before you stepped on it.
I said, and pulled my shadow out of the light on the floorboards before he saw my gnarly fingers, my bramble hair.
Beyond the dying garden, the wood was so overgrown with vine and bramble that I would have needed a scythe to enter it.
Nobody except Bramble, who had now bounded on to the bed and with lightning rapidity gone to sleep like a black snail on the green eiderdown.
She was going out with the dogs, walking up the Lane, stopping at the Grange to put Bramble on the lead.
It was Bramble who never had enough, and Cicely who could run as far as he did and then sink down laughing whilst he pounced for joy and nibbled at her hair.
He was past them and off his bicycle, leaning it against the bank and coming back to a snuffing, sobbing welcome from Bramble and no welcome at all from Cicely.
Then, as she moved, he stopped and caught up Bramble by the scruff of his neck.
She put the window up and slipped out on her own side, shutting the door quickly on Bramble, who did his best to slip out too and very nearly brought it off.
Grant stopped looking at her and went off to the study with Bramble at his heels.