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Word: nettle

Definition: irritate; annoy; vex; ADJ. nettlesome


Sentences Containing 'nettle'

I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.

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