brishings
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Noun[edit]
brishings pl (plural only)
- (UK, dialect) hedge trimmings
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Floods”, in A Diversity of Creatures:
- The first wood down is sere and small, / From the hills, the brishings off the hills; / And then come by the bats and all / We cut last year in the hills; […]
- 1946, Vita Sackville-West, The Garden:
- The fire our friend, that symbol since the cave, / Which on a wintry morning, still half dark, / In roadside fireside when our days are stark / But bonfire brishings of the hedges spark / Touches our childish heart, and makes us brave.