benettled

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of benettle

comparative more benettled · superlative most benettled

1. Full of nettles.

   The Cricketers, being only twenty feet from the benettled tip of my small triangular garden , had now become “ my pub , ” although I still spent my Saturday nights in the Elephant .

   1943, Clifford Hornby, Rural Amateur, page 126

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   The Tinkers were people who spent all the tolerably warm part of the year among the benettled wall-rims of deserted cabins, and under the arches of bridges, and in the hollows of old quarries, making progresses to and from these quarters with the help of two donkey-carts.

   1898, Jane Barlow, A Creel of Irish Stories, page 105