branchlet
Example Sentences
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The workman, placing the gimlet above the long, slender branchlet of wood, bores half the length, and then reverses the position to operate upon the other half.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
The bark utensils will wear longer if a slender rootlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with the "over-and-over" stitch, to the edge of the article.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard
Then stretched I forth my hand a little forward, And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn; And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?"
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a hand-lens it is seen to consist of tiny, upright, brown stalks which are branched at the tips, each branchlet being crowned with a naked head of pale-coloured spores.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
The bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church
