yarb

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See also: þarb

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yarb (plural yarbs)

  1. (UK, dialect, archaic) herb
    • 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, page 165:
      The medicine is nat'ral yarbs, pure yarbs; yarbs must cure me.
    • 1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine, page 60:
      He was then generally known by the soubriquet of Yarb, or Yarb Man, as he preferred to be hailed, for the reason that he always carried with him a collection of yarrow, tansy, snake root, squaw root, choice buds and barks []
    • 1939, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise:
      Yarrow, or milleflower, was an exception; everybody still gathered that in large quantities to make 'yarb beer'.

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