furze

Example Sentences

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The appetizer, made with duck fat butter, brandy and port, is one of the richest spreads around; housemade wurzel bread makes for a fine canvas.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022

Isaac Pye did a wurzel snigger and ambled back to the bar.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

I can conjugate the modern verb "to wangle," And, if required, translate it into Greek; I can even tell a wurzel from a mangel; But I cannot tell a bubble from a squeak.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 by Various

Barron listened thoughtfully to these details, then pointed to an ugly sight beyond the wurzel mound.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

The mangel wurzel was introduced about 1780-5 by Parkyns, and prickly comfrey in 1811.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)