Definitions for briers

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briers bri·er

Spelling: [brahy-er]

IPA: /ˈbraɪ ər/

Briers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in briers (beirrs).

Definitions for briers

noun

1. a prickly plant or shrub, especially the sweetbrier or a greenbrier.
2. a tangled mass of prickly plants.
3. a thorny stem or twig.
4. the white heath, Erica arborea, of France and Corsica, the woody root of which is used for making tobacco pipes.
5. a pipe made of brierroot.
6. (chiefly in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee) a term used to refer to a rustic or hillbilly, especially one from Appalachia.

Origin of briers

before 1000; Middle English brer, Old English brǣr, brēr; akin to bramble

Examples for briers

So he picked up Rabbit and threw him far into the brier patch.

The plants in all these are either a brier and a rose, or a brier and a birk.

As soon as they had gone out of my hearing I emerged from the brier thicket.

As he touched her, brier Rose opened her eyes and looked quite sweetly at him.

It is your right,” said his daughter, quietly; “the brier Brook swales were yours.

“I will throw you into the brier patch,” repeated the Frenchman.

Hidden by brier and eglantine, they are fast losing all traces of cultivation.

It must be lovely there, and the change will make you as keen as a brier for business.

Trudy was keen as a brier whenever her own realm was threatened.

Democrats want to be thrown in that brier patch—it might be their best chance to win the midterms.