hopbine

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Etymology

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From hop +‎ bine.

Noun

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hopbine (plural hopbines)

  1. The climbing stem of the hop.
    • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 162:
      I was [] hurtling along [] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them.

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