hopbine

English

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Etymology

From hop +‎ bine.

Noun

hopbine (plural hopbines)

  1. The climbing stem of the hop.
    • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 162:
      I was […] hurtling along […] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them.

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