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Definition of Burdocks
1. burdock [n] - See also: burdock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burdocks
Literary usage of Burdocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"Now, the calculations we are about to propose, as above alluded to, are these :
Let every land owner, whose fences arc lined with a belt of elders, burdocks ..."
2. The Southern Planter (1852)
"Now, the calculations we are about to propose, QS above alluded to, are these:
Let every land-owner, whose fences are lined with a belt of elders, burdocks, ..."
3. Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Even the banks where plaster and lath were dumped two or three years ago are now
luxuriant with burdocks and sweet clover; and yet persons who pass those ..."
4. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"142 —3, quite mis-represented the reading of the old eds. in the following line,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Lr. iv. 4. ..."