nettles

nettles

1. plural of nettle

nettles pl (plural only)

1. (nautical) Small lengths of cord attached to a sail, used to secure the excess fabric after reefing; reef points

nettles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of nettle

• Sletten, lentest, nestlet, telnets

From Middle English netle, from Old English netele, from Proto-West Germanic *natilā.

• IPA^(key): /nɛˈtlz/

nettles (plural only)

1. nettles
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:

     Aar was lhaung kaayle an nettles, ee-mixt wee prasaugh buee,

     There was long kale and nettles, mingled with yellow-weed,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94