Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
rhubarb .
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Examples
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My Grandmother had a garden for a couple decades where she grew everything from tomatoes, beets, onions, radishes, rubarb, carrots, green beans, herbs and more.
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Though again, I contend that if this WAS Canada, would we not have pumpkin pie, would we not have strawberry and rubarb pie?
Where now? Now here: nowhere Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Ran out of that kind of liquor so I switched to Margaritas until my step mom made some rubarb punch with vodka and pineapple juice which was the yummiest thing in the world to drink.
miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2008
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But when you type rubarb, for example, into Google and you get 85,000 hits, it makes you wonder.
Archive 2007-06-01 DC 2007
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Google and spelling: We will know when we are in trouble when the message coming up is: Did you mean rubarb?
On simplifying English DC 2007
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And don't give me that old rubarb about how could they keep 9/11 a secret?
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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But when you type rubarb, for example, into Google and you get 85,000 hits, it makes you wonder.
On simplifying English DC 2007
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I forgot to say that i am tagging your stewed rubarb recipe for my post today.
Rhubarb and Apple Crumble Haalo 2007
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When rh is initial and the h is silent drop it: retoric, reumatism, rime, rubarb, rithm.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling Henry Louis 1921
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No WOW factor. on 6/17/2010 & rated 89 points: NOSE: blackberries, cedar, rubarb, a bit of alcohol.
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