Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The climbing or twining stem of the hop-plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The climbing stem of the hop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
climbing stem of thehop .
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Examples
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In one of them, buried in a thick tangle of wild pear, crab-apple, sorrel, young oaks, and hopbine, clouds of tiny black flies swarmed round Olga Mihalovna.
The Party 1917
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I might describe more prints, and the pleasure they have given me; I might pile epithet upon epithet; I might say that the colour was as deep and as delicate as flower-bloom, and every outline spontaneous, and exquisite to the point of reminding me of the hopbine and ferns.
Modern Painting 1892
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In one of them, buried in a thick tangle of wild pear, crab-apple, sorrel, young oaks, and hopbine, clouds of tiny black flies swarmed round Olga Mihalovna.
The Party Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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