benettled
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]benettled
- simple past and past participle of benettle
Adjective
[edit]benettled (comparative more benettled, superlative most benettled)
- Full of nettles.
- 1898, Jane Barlow, A Creel of Irish Stories, page 105:
- The Tinkers were people who spent all the tolerably warm part of the year among the benettled wall-rims of deserted cabins, and under the arches of bridges, and in the hollows of old quarries, making progresses to and from these quarters with the help of two donkey-carts.
- 1943, Clifford Hornby, Rural Amateur, page 126:
- The Cricketers, being only twenty feet from the benettled tip of my small triangular garden , had now become “ my pub , ” although I still spent my Saturday nights in the Elephant .