hopbine
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hopbine (plural hopbines)
- The climbing stem of the hop.
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 162:
- I was […] hurtling along […] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them.