hopbine en · NOUN
Etymology
From hop + bine.
Meanings
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The climbing stem of the hop.
I was […] hurtling along […] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 162:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hopbines | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| hopbind | alternative | lexicographic |