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thorned
  1. containing thorns v

  2. (en-past of: thorn)

Usage examples of "thorned".

But once it had grasped the idea, it enthusiastically went on snipping off thorned twigs until I had many more than I could use.

These were guarded by gates whose petrified heartwood bars were thorned along their lengths, spiked at their tops.

Caliban, growing more agitated now, crouching on his hind legs, his long forearms hanging down, thorned knuckles scraping moss from pipe.

Tall poles a couple of inches thick covered with thorned leaves which dewed the back of his left hand with blood.

Case turned back, in time to catch the briefest flash of a black rose, its petals sheened like leather, the black stem thorned with bright chrome.

The grade down the foothills from the Upland Mountain Pass was gentle, the work consisting chiefly of moving boulders and clearing the thorned desert scrub.

Other people traveled the road, mostly carters, drovers, and market traders, but occasionally a fine lady dressed in scarlet velvet and sables, accompanied by her men-at-arms, or a pair of Forsworn knights, wearing iron scale gleaming with bone oil, cloth-of-skin cloaks, and the thorned collars known as the Penance, would pass by or overtake them.

In the pre-dawn glow he'd spotted a clump of thorned syphacia bushes growing in the rocks by the track.

In the pre-dawn glow he’d spotted a clump of thorned syphacia bushes growing in the rocks by the track.