Meaning of cushag | Babel Free

Definitions

The ragwort, the national flower of the Isle of Man, which has a large stalk.

Examples

“He saw Kate coming down the glen road, driving two heifers with a cushag for switch and flashing its gold at them in the horizontal gleams of sunset.”

“I pointed out a field near my apiary full of cushags, and, though a sunny day in midsummer, not a bee was to be found among the cushags, nor had I ever previously seen them working on that flower.”

“Little green men with their eyes all afire, Poking stray sunbeams in pools to catch them, Binding the wind with a cushag stem wire, Throwing the mist on the clouds to patch them.”

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