Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of nettle.
- n. nautical Small lengths of cord attached to a sail, used to secure the excess fabric after reefing; reef points
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
- n. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
- n. Reef points.
Examples
“It is my opinion that enabling an email address to be used as a “hint” that resolves to a valid OpenID URL is a necessary step to dislodge one of the main nettles against OpenID.”
“[...] is my opinion that enabling an email address to be used as a “hint” that resolves to a valid OpenID URL is a necessary step to dislodge one of the main nettles [...]”
Announcing Emailtoid: mapping email addresses to OpenIDs | FactoryCity
“Stinging nettles may also be called nettles, they usually grow wild near fresh water, but also appear as weeds in gardens, use gloves to pick them!”
“Even the juice o 'nettles, which is common enough, drunk three times a day will kill any germ o' cancer, while it'll set up the blood as fresh an 'bright as iver.”
“Alædeus of Padua, recommends flagellation with green nettles, that is, urtication, to be performed on the limbs of young children for the purpose of hastening the eruption of the small pox.”
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
“The nettles are a kind of milky white, Anderson said.”
“He had to sift through one or two leaves labelled nettles to find a needle.”
“They will then turn all the Earth into a slave colony where we will spend the rest of our lives growing nettles which is the food of choice for Kingon-Vesuvians, as well as the Makers Mark Bourbon which is their drink of choice.”
“Not all of these many flowers and shrubs could be grown in our climate, some mentioned, such as nettles, burdocks, plantains and other weeds, would be entirely out of place in a garden, soon overrunning it.”
“But the best source of silica is usually something that we dont have in health food stores, such as nettles, or something like horsetail, or something like hemp leaf.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nettles’.
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Itchy
wool, cat dander, ragweed, poison ivy, dust mite, poison oak, nettles, pollen, mosquito bite, chigger, dog dander, pet dander and 39 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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judith's word inbox
collocated, carnaval, articulate, reticulated, cilia, sardonic, aesthetics, tenacity, tensile, jubilant, ebullient, ethereal and 206 more...
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Victory Garden ❀
Plants or gardening concepts I like.
ethnobotany, wildcraft, olericulture, sea holly, lamb's ear, nettles, pitnagen, eucalyptus, raspberry, cloche, mulch, witchgrass
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