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wrest-harrow

wrest-harrow is the alternative spelling of restharrow.

Meaning of restharrow

Noun

restharrow (plural restharrows)

  1. Any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis, especially common restharrow (Ononis repens), which has pink flowers.
    • Common Restharrow rises up with diverse rough, woody twigs, half a yard or a yard high, set at the joints without order [...].1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 238

Questions about wrest-harrow

What is wrest-harrow the alternative spelling of?
Wrest-harrow is the alternative spelling of restharrow.

Words near wrest-harrow in the dictionary

  1. wrest
  2. wrest block
  3. wrest blocks
  4. wrest-block
  5. wrest-blocks
  6. wrest-harrow
  7. wrestable
  8. wrested
  9. wrester
  10. wresters
  11. wresting

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