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Vinony

briar

noun

  1. a tobacco pipe made from a woody root outgrowth of a shrub-like Mediterranean heath (Erica arborea)
  2. the tree heath, Erica arborea, which bears the nodules from which briar pipes are made
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noun

  1. any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs
  2. a mass of briars
  3. a branch or twig of a briar
  4. a prickle or thorn, especially of a briar, bramble, or wild rose bush
  5. the stem of a wild rose, especially Rosa rubiginosa and R. laxa, onto which a variety of cultivated rose is grafted or budded
  6. (in plural) troubles, difficulties; dangers, perils; frustrations
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɹaɪə/ / /ˈbɹaɪɚ/

name

Etymology: As a surname Middle English brere (“briar”).

  1. A topographic surname from Middle English.
  2. A unisex given name from English.

noun

Etymology: From French bruyère, assimilated with Etymology 1, above.

  1. Tree heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
  2. A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

    “Then he put the insulted pipe in his pocket, corked himself up with the immense briar, and sneered at Cripps over the top of it.”