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- noun Plural form of
hazel .
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Examples
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Those having shorter and more open husks, so that the nut protruded, were called hazels after the German word "hassel," -- hood, in English.
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At the outermost corners of the squares should be four poles, called hazels; when this is done, it is a hazelled field.
Kormáks saga. English 1862- [Translator] J��n Stef��nsson 1893
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And they had a well below the sea where the nine hazels of wisdom were growing; that is, the hazels of inspiration and of the knowledge of poetry.
Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892
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Many people call them "hazels," but I think we should call them "filberts."
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They are very busy among the "hazels," flying from bush to bush with restless activity, and wasting no time in idleness.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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For a time, an effort was made to distinguish between the two by calling small-fruited ones "hazels" and those with large fruits "filberts," but there is not exact dividing line and so now all are called filberts.
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In the woods atop old hazels under a thinning canopy of ash, along the lime avenue where high branches spread into the crowns, in gardens where hawthorns overhang the unworked edges? here are the robins.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010
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I followed a stream downhill into a quintessentially English coppice of straight-trunked oaks and catkin-laden, multi-stemmed hazels, whose like has all but disappeared from the landscape.
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Across the dale, sunbeams raced over the flanks of Chapel Fell, lighting up the yellowing birches and hazels and flashing across the mirror surface of West Slit dam, whose stored water powered the hydraulic engine in the valley below.
Country diary: Westgate, Weardale Phil Gates 2010
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Connla's well contained the salmon of wisdom, and the salmon was wise because its well was surrounded by nine hazels that dropped their nuts into the water.
A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones Tobias Jones 2010
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