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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of birdlime.

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Examples

  • I never expected [MS torn] another friend, & yet chance has birdlimed me to one in a most odd manner.

    Letter 257 1797

  • As the poor Flutterer, who by hard struggling has escaped from the birdlimed thorn-bush, still bears the clammy Incumbrance on his feet and wings, so am I doomed to carry about with me the sad mementos of past Imprudence and Anguish from which I have been imperfectly released.

    Coleridge & Southey Letters 1794

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