Meanings
noundog-brier (plural dog-briers)
plural dog-briers · alternative dog briar · alternative dog brier
- A dog rose (Rosa canina).
The hazel-boughs took me too hard in the face, and the tall dog-briers got hold of me, and the ache of my back was like crimping a fish
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC
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