| 词汇 | briar |
| 释义 | briar noun (alsobrier)uk /ˈbraɪ.ər/ us /ˈbraɪ.ɚ/ briarnoun (BUSH)[ C or U ] a wild bush, especially a rose or blackberry bush with long stems and sharp thorns: 野蔷薇丛 His sleeve caught on a briar. They headed across country over rocks and through thorny briar. The cottage was almost hidden by a thicket of wildflowers, grass and briars. We heard the soft cheeping of a bird from under a tangled briar. The land boasts many shrubs and trees—poplars, cypresses, chestnut, briar, pine, and fir. All I saw was the whitethorn and brier of the hedges, the green ridge of the lane. He begged not to be thrown in the briar patch. Those brier bushes could grow as tall as ten feet high. Bushes & shrubs abelia abutilon angel's trumpet aronia artemisia dogwood eglantine ephedra firethorn forsythia manzanita mayflower Mexican orange mock orange multiflora rose snowberry spicebush staghorn sumac sumac sweetbriar briarnoun (FOR SMOKING)[ C ](alsobriar pipe) a wooden pipe (= a short tube with a bowl-shaped container at one end) for smoking tobacco: Prime Minister Macmillan was frequently seen puffing away on his briar. He tamped a wad of tobacco into his briar pipe and lit it carefully. Ridofranz/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages He had gone outside to smoke his briar. He spoke without taking the briar pipe out of his mouth. On the nightstand was a clock, a brier pipe, and a hardback book. Tobacco & smoking anti-tobacco ashtray big tobacco butt chain-smoker cigarette cigarette butt cigarette holder corncob pipe hookah lighter passive smoking roll up!idiom roll-your-own second-hand smoke shisha smokable smokeless tar weed A garden will soon be overrun with weeds and briars, if it is not cultivated with the greatest care. His coat was torn, his hat lost, and his face scratched right across with briars. Martin, too, wore old clothes that would be none the worse for meeting with briars or crushed berries. There was more than one bower composed entirely of rose-trees, and there were very long hedges of sweet briar and Scotch roses. Upon the ridge thus formed he built a post and rail fence and along it planted cedars, locusts, pines, briars or thorn bushes to discourage cattle and other stock. Examples of briarbriar They have no desire to disturb wildlife or to struggle with bracken, bramble or briar. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That land is now merely producing a crop of thistles, briars, and nettles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of these are producing nothing but bracken and briars and are only grazed to a small extent by sheep, goats and poultry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They keep reverting to socialist ideas and their rose is returning to the briar that it was. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of these, only 150 gross were of briar. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In addition, there are unproductive scrub areas with briars, gorse and birch trees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a product from those briars which will be re-exported. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You can hardly see where they were; the ground is covered with brambles and with briars. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are still very much in the wood, and it is full of briar patches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had been in the thicket of briar for so long, frozen into silence, that when he was given the chance to speak the words poured out almost without cessation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Outside of snake country, bird hunters often wear upland chaps made of waxed cotton or nylon to protect their legs from briars and thorns. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The use of briar wood beginning in the early 1820s greatly reduced demand for clay pipes and to a lesser degree meerschaum pipes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The qualities of the meerschaum were combined with those of the briar wood pipes by lining a briar pipe with a meerschaum bowl. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The glass hatchet he was given broke on the first briars; the youngest daughter saved him again. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The name may be the joining of "bil-" meaning set or a round place and "araitz" meaning blackthorn, prickly, or briar. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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