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BRAMBLE

Volume 4 · 90 words · 1823 Edition

in Botany, the English name of the Bramble RUBUS. See BOTANY Index.

BRAMBLE-Net, otherwise called halier, is a net to catch birds in of several sizes: the great meshes must be four inches square; those of the least size are three inches square; and those of the biggest, five. In the depth they should not be above three or four inches; but as for the length, they may be enlarged at pleasure; the shortest being 18 feet long.

or Brambling, in Ornithology, the trivial name of a species of Fringilla.