Nettles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NETTLES in dictionary:

VERB:
• NETTLE, to annoy
• irritate or annoy (someone)
• sting with nettles.
NOUN:
• a herbaceous plant which has jagged leaves covered with stinging hairs.
• used in names of other plants with leaves of a similar appearance to those of the nettle, e.g. dead-nettle.
• The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
• Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
• Reef points.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make angry

Words related to NETTLES

nettle6 nettled8 nettling9

Words that contain NETTLES

nettlesome12

How to use NETTLES in a sentence

• You had no mercy on brave little Eliza! Now you shall gather nettles for the rest of your life.
• What we have above related concerning the nettles is of the same character.
• We formed an encampment on this narrow stream by cutting away bushes, and beating down high grass and nettles.
• What had been the narrow strip of fore-garden, railed from the pavement, was now a little wilderness of coarse grass, docks, nettles, and degenerate shrubs.
• They skirted the giant nettles widely, for these huge weeds threatened them with poison-thorns a good inch long.
• What other monsters might not those deepening shadows hide? The tips of the giant nettles came out sharp and black against the pale green and amber of the western sky.
• They made a harsh linen from the bark of the rotted nettles.
• They say it would make the hair stand on your head like nettles even to go into it.
• Do thou hold him, good man Nettles, as being in some wise accountable for his condition.
• I am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms.
• She is like a bunch of nettles, stinging you if you but touch her.
• Now, remember Jarvis, and the bed of stinging nettles! 15.
• If nettles newly gathered are laid at the bottom of the basket and on the top of the fruit, they will hasten the ripening of fruit picked unripe, and make it keep its colour.
• Wild hemp, nettles, grasses, and other like growths furnished much of the finer fibers.
• He understood the sign, and ran behind the bush, but he did not know that there was a small ditch overgrown with nettles there.
• He stumbled and fell into the nettles, already wet with dew, stinging his bands, but rose immediately, laughing at his mishap.
• A strong decoction of Nettles drunk too freely by mistake has produced severe burning over the whole body, with general redness, and a sense of being stung.
• The wide court-yard was entirely overgrown by nettles, as green and thick as hemp.
• There were several tombstones, but the inscriptions were either worn-out or unintelligible to us, and the place choked up with nettles and brambles.
• It is even said, that those fair nettles of India took advantage of her weakness, to dress her head awry, and to apply the rouge to her nose, instead of her cheeks.
• The harvest of this tillage was plentifully interspersed with thorns, nettles, and thistles, which stung the husbandman unpleasantly, and did not enrich him.
• I went down through the coarse grass, which was harsh and prickly to my feet, and full of nettles or something which stung me at every step, and was glad to reach the open water.
• That night he turned over on his spring-cot bed as often as if he had been lying on nettles, and when he did sleep he dreamed horribly.
• Numbers kept themselves alive by collecting nettles and boiling them.
• And we see what nettles him, That the King has learnt from the unhappy example of his Father, not to perpetuate a Parliament.

Similar words containing NETTLE without suffix s

nettle6 nettled8 nettler7 nettlers8 nettlelike14 nettlesome12

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