Definitions for birdlime

birdlime bird·lime

Spelling: [burd-lahym]
IPA: /ˈbɜrdˌlaɪm/

Birdlime is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in birdlime (bdeiilmr).

Definitions for birdlime

noun

  1. a sticky material prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, and smeared on twigs to catch small birds that light on it.

verb (used with object)

  1. to smear with birdlime.
  2. to catch or capture, as with birdlime:

Origin of birdlime

First recorded in 1400-50, birdlime is from the late Middle English word brydelyme. See bird, lime1

Examples for birdlime

Family pride was a kind of birdlime with old Dalton, and if he but touched, he could not leave it.

Upon inquiry, however, he found that no birdlime was to be had.

It is the birdlime with which the devil catches many a female and male soul.

He described the merits of deadfalls, snares, steel traps, and birdlime.

Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime.

From this it would appear, that fowlers stood behind trees, and used reeds tipped with birdlime, for the purpose of taking birds.

Your books are birdlime to him, however; he hovers about the house to obtain a volume when others have done with it.

The flies seem an Egyptian plague, and get mortised into the oily butter, which holds them like birdlime.

The former consists of shavings from old documents, and the latter of birdlime for new converts.

The hazels are all down, and the hollies pounded into birdlime.

Word Value for birdlime
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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