Definitions for gorse

gorse gorse

Spelling: [gawrs]
IPA: /gɔrs/

Gorse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in gorse (egors).

Definitions for gorse

noun

  1. any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.

Origin of gorse

before 900; Middle English gorst, Old English; akin to German Gerste, Latin hordeum barley

Examples for gorse

Nae, the pastures were brown, or purple and yellow with heather and gorse.

The bees buzzed about the wild thyme and the golden heads of gorse.

It's 'Kate' in the sea, and 'Kate' in the river, and the trees and the gorse.

Meanwhile they fired the gorse in front of the 29th Division.

Why, to carry her, you torment, to carry her through the gorse like this.

I turned quickly from the pond and pressed a way through the gorse.

Just stirring the peats, and boiling the kettle, and lifting the gorse when there was any fire.

I reload rapidly, and on reaching the gorse 'put in' the dogs.

If the gorse should fail the fuchsia might even take its place on the mountains.

The gorse was fast extending its golden empire over the commons.

Word Value for gorse
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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