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# brier

«brier» in Mova's school dictionary: **another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (briers)

### meaning for a pupil

A brier is another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in animal tales from the American south, the brier-patch is where the rabbit hides from the fox

### examples

- "Don't fling me in that brier-patch," said Brer Rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#x1)
- The thorns on the brier scratched the boy's legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#x2)
- The rabbit ran into the brier-patch and was safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.160/)
- [Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.547/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.