Hopbine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The climbing stem of the hop.

    "I was […] hurtling along […] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them."

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"I was […] hurtling along […] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them."

Etymology

From hop + bine.

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