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furze

noun

: gorse
furzy adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Now there are tennis courts in Plumstead Common, where a group of women once axed down fences and set the furze on fire to protest enclosure. Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022 There is Clapham Common, Streatham Common, Clapton Common, and Barnes Common, where commoners cut furze to burn for heat. Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022 Half-wild by then with the freedom of Their summer grazing among the furze and the heather,The white-faced Cheviots, elusiveAs the clouds streaming over the Wicklow peaks,Ran us and the young dogs raggedWith their anarchic dodging and darting. Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018

Word History

Etymology

Middle English firse, from Old English fyrs; akin to Russian pyreĭ quack grass, Greek pyros wheat

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of furze was before the 12th century

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