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bram⋅ble

  [bram-buhl] noun, verb, -bled, -bling.
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–noun
1. any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
2. British. the common blackberry.
3. any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.
–verb (used without object)
4. British. to look for and gather wild blackberries; pick blackberries from the vine.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE bræmbel, var. of brǣmel, equiv. to brǣm- (c. D braam broom ) + -el n. suffix
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bram·ble   (brām'bəl)   
n.  
  1. A prickly shrub of the genus Rubus, including the blackberry and the raspberry.
  2. A prickly shrub or bush.

[Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel.]
bram'bly adj.
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Bramble

Bram"ble\ (br[a^]m"b'l), n. [OE. brembil, AS. br[=e]mel, br[=e]mbel, br[=ae]mbel (akin to OHG. br[=a]mal), fr. the same root as E. broom, As. br[=o]m. See Broom.]

1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. --Shak.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The brambling or bramble finch.
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bramble 
O.E. bræmbel "rough, prickly shrub" (especially the blackberry bush), with euphonic -b-, from earlier bræmel, from P.Gmc. *bræmaz (see broom).
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Bramble

(1.) Hebrew _atad_, Judg. 9:14; rendered "thorn," Ps. 58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn. (2.) Hebrew _hoah_, Isa. 34:13 (R.V. "thistles"); "thickets" in 1 Sam. 13:6; "thistles" in 2 Kings 14:9, 2 Chr. 25:18, Job 31:40; "thorns" in 2 Chr. 33:11, Cant. 2:2, Hos. 9:6. The word may be regarded as denoting the common thistle, of which there are many species which encumber the corn-fields of Palestine. (See THORNS.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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