dockleaf

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A form of dock leaf — The leaf of the dock plant, traditionally rubbed against the skin as a remedy for the sting of nettles.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noundockleaf (plural dockleaves)

plural dockleaves

  1. alternativeAlternative form of dock leaf.

    He stung his arms, and while he was rubbing them with a dockleaf the witness saw some tattoo marks on his left arm.

    1874, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, The Tichborne Trial, page 271
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