<span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-<span class="searchmatch">twig</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-<span class="searchmatch">twigs</span>) (UK, dialect) An earwig 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Spinster's Sweet-Arts”, in Tiresias, and Other Poems, page...
<span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-<span class="searchmatch">twigs</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-<span class="searchmatch">twig</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">twig</span>. tillow a <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> in a bundle cannot be broken a <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> in a bundle is unbreakable <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-<span class="searchmatch">twig</span> hop the <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> in prime <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> lime-<span class="searchmatch">twig</span> Macaya green <span class="searchmatch">twig</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">battler</span> <span class="searchmatch">battle</span> rapper <span class="searchmatch">battle</span> rhythm <span class="searchmatch">battle</span> rifle <span class="searchmatch">battle</span> rope <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-royal <span class="searchmatch">battle</span> royal <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-royale <span class="searchmatch">battle</span> royale <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-sark <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-scarred <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>-sharp...
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *šaŋka. Cognates include Northern Mansi таг (tag, “<span class="searchmatch">twig</span>, branch”). IPA(key): [ˈaːɡ] Hyphenation: ág Rhymes: -aːɡ ág (plural ágak)...
(figurative) A metaphorical arm or weapon; a tool of figurative <span class="searchmatch">battle</span>. (rare) A limb, tillow or <span class="searchmatch">twig</span>. (rare) A measure for area. (rare) A poetic verse. bocstaff...
one cannot break a <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> in a bundle one cannot break sticks in a bundle one can't break a stick in a bundle one can't break a <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> in a bundle one can't...
her Armes / Braunching ſo broad and long, that in the ground / The bended <span class="searchmatch">Twigs</span> take root, and Daughters grow / About the Mother Tree, […] 1794, Jonathan...
tempered that may be: And this Earth ought alſo to be mixed with Withy <span class="searchmatch">Twigs</span>, or Brambles, provided they take Root, after which they are to be lined...
related to Proto-West Germanic *slīban (“to split”). slip (plural slips) A <span class="searchmatch">twig</span> or shoot; a cutting. a slip from a vine 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]...