Meaning of Browse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Young shoots and twigs.
   uncountable
2. Fodder for cattle and other animals.
   uncountable
3. The act of browsing through something.
   countable
4. That which one browses through; something to read.
   countable
5. Bruised fish used as bait.
   Cornwall, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]”

“Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, / On browz, and corn, and flowery meadows feed.”

“The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line. There's enough browse here to feed a hundred thousand cattle. But water's the thing.”

“Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.”

“In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.”

“I had a browse in the old bookshop.”

“Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had been his chosen browse for some time.”

“He cast in his hook-and-line, intending to take one fish only for his supper, from the multitude that always came around the rock on which he stood as soon as he cast in "browse" (garbage to attract fish).”

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