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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brambling \Bram"bling\, n. [OE. bramline. See Bramble, n.] (Zo["o]l.) The European mountain finch ( Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English bræmbel "rough, prickly shrub" (especially the blackberry bush), with euphonic -b-, from earlier bræmel, from Proto-Germanic *bræmaz (see broom).
Wiktionary
n. (label en British) Common blackberry.
WordNet
n. any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
Wikipedia
In British English, a "bramble" is any rough (usually wild) tangled prickly shrub—specifically the blackberry bush (Rubus fruticosus)—or any hybrid of similar appearance, with thorny stems. Bramble or brambleberry may also refer to the blackberry fruit or products of its fruit (e.g., bramble jelly). The shrub grows abundantly in all parts of the British Isles and harvesting the fruits in late summer and autumn is often considered a favourite pastime. It can also become a nuisance in gardens, sending down its strong suckering roots amongst hedges and shrubs. Many consider it a weed due its tendency to grow in neglected areas and its sharp, tough thorns which can be hazardous to children and pets.
Elsewhere, such as in the United States, the term "bramble" also refers to other members of the Rubus genus, which may or may not have prickly stems—notably the raspberry (Rubus idaeus) or its hybrids.
Bramble or Brambles may refer to:
- Blackberry, a thorny fruit bush, and by association any rough prickly shrub
- Bramble Bank, a sandbank in the Solent notable for an annual cricket match played during low tides
- Bramble (graph theory)
- Bramble (surname)
- Bramble, Indiana, a town in the USA
- HMS Bramble, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy, and one ship which was never completed
- ST Brambles, a British tugboat
- Brambles Limited, an Australian company
- Bramble (cocktail), a drink containing blackberry liqueur.
- Colonel Bramble, a fictional character in 'Les silences du colonel Bramble'' (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) by Andre Maurois
In graph theory, a bramble for an undirected graph G is a family of connected subgraphs of G that all touch each other: for every pair of disjoint subgraphs, there must exist an edge in G that has one endpoint in each subgraph. The order of a bramble is the smallest size of a hitting set, a set of vertices of G that has a nonempty intersection with each of the subgraphs. Brambles may be used to characterize the treewidth of G.
Bramble is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- A.V. Bramble (1887–1963) British actor and film director
- Curt Bramble, American politician and Certified Public Accountant from Utah
- James H. Bramble, American mathematician
- Kevin Bramble, American disabled ski racer, freeskier, and monoski designer
- Livingstone Bramble or Ras-I Alujah Bramble, Kittian and Nevisian boxer
- Mark Bramble, American theatre director, author and producer
- Percival Austin Bramble, Montserratian politician
- Tesfaye Bramble, English-born Montserratian footballer
- Titus Bramble, English Premier League footballer
- William Henry Bramble, Montserratian politician
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 fresh red fruits (such as blackberries, cranberries) and a slice of lemon. The Bramble is served with crushed ice, over which the cocktail is poured. The visual 'trickle down' effect, similar to a bramble bush is often credited as the origin of the cocktail's name. It closely resembles the popular Gin Fix.
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.