Definitions
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- noun any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
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Examples
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Seeing all this entitlement and grandiose living feels like a cockle-burr, snagged on the hem of my worn out jeans, prickling me now and again.
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Even they had taken on the Midas touch of gold, for all green and gold that world of blue-grass was -- all green and gold, except for the shaggy unkempt fields where the king of weeds had tented the year before and turned them over to his camp followers -- ragweed, dockweed, white-top, and cockle-burr.
The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891
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Page 183 high an 'ez sheer ez a wall; it ain't got foothold fur a cockle-burr.
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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