pusley

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English

Noun

pusley (countable and uncountable, plural pusleys)

  1. (US, dialect) purslane
    • 1904, James Power Smith, Brightside Idyls: Every Week of the Year, page 48:
      We have had a hard battle with the weeds and their roots in our lawn, the docks and the mullens and the pusley.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pusley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)