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briar
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
1 briar noun
plural briars also briers
1 briar
noun
plural briars also briers
Learner's definition of BRIAR
[count]
: a wild plant that has many sharp points (called thorns) on its branches多刺野生植物；野蔷薇
- a thicket of briars野蔷薇丛
— compare 2briar
2 briar noun
or brier /ˈbrajɚ/
plural briars or briarers
2 briar
noun
or brier /ˈbrajɚ/
plural briars or briarers
Learner's definition of BRIAR
[count]
: a tobacco pipe that is made from the root of a European plant欧石楠根烟斗
— called also briar pipe
— compare 1briar
variants or less commonly brier
plural briars also briers
1
: a plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem
… head up an almost invisible trail along the left bank, through young pines and briars.
Robert F. Jones
see also briar patch Robert F. Jones variants or briar pipe
plural briars or briar pipes
: a tobacco pipe made from a woody root outgrowth of a shrub-like Mediterranean heath (Erica arborea)
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English brer, brere, going back to Old English brēr, brǣr, of uncertain origin
Note: The noun briar belongs to a small set of words in which Middle English ę̄ has been raised to ī, whence [ai] in present-day English. These words are all, with the exception of briar, of French origin: friar, quire entry 1, choir entry 1, contrive, umpire entry 1, dice. See hypothesized explanations of this change in E. J. Dobson, English Pronunciation 1500-1700, 2nd edition, vol. 2, pp. 655-58.
Noun (2)
short for briar pipe, from briar "wood of the heath plant Erica arborea," borrowed (with conformation to briar entry 1) from French bruyère "the heath plant Erica arborea," going back to Old French bruiere, bruere "moorland covered with heath, the heath plant Erica arborea," going back to Vulgar Latin *brūcāria, from *brūcus "heath plant" (borrowed from Gaulish *wroikos) + Latin -āria -ary entry 1 — more at erica
Note: The meaning of the derivative *brūcāria must initially have been "place covered with *brūcus," but early on in Old French it was applied to the plant itself. The simplex *brūcus is attested as Old Occitan bruc, bru, breu, Catalan bruc, Upper Italian (Piedmont) brü, (Milan) brüg. A tenth-century botanical vocabulary (see Corpus glossariorum Latinorum vol. 3, p. 587) has the gloss brucus : ramnus [Greek rhámnos "thorny shrub"]. The treatment of the diphthong (*oi > *ū) in the passage from Celtic to Vulgar Latin is idiosyncratic; it seems unlikely to have any connection to the monophthongization of oe (> ū) in classical Latin.
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1882, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of briar was before the 12th century Phrases Containing briar
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