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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
nettles
Noun[edit]
nettles pl (plural only)
- (nautical) Small lengths of cord attached to a sail, used to secure the excess fabric after reefing; reef points
Translations[edit]
reefing cord
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Verb[edit]
nettles
- third-person singular simple present indicative of nettle
Anagrams[edit]
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English netle, from Old English netele, from Proto-West Germanic *natilā.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nettles (plural only)
- nettles
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:
- Aar was lhaung kaayle an nettles, ee-mixt wee prasaugh buee,
- There was long kale and nettles, mingled with yellow-weed,
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94
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