benettled

English

Verb

benettled

1. simple past and past participle of benettle

Adjective

benettled (comparative more benettled, superlative most benettled)

1. Full of nettles.
   • 1898, Jane Barlow, A Creel of Irish Stories, page 105:

     The Tinkers were people who spent all the tolerably warm part of the year among the benettled wall-rims of deserted cabins, and under the arches of bridges, and in the hollows of old quarries, making progresses to and from these quarters with the help of two donkey-carts.

   • 1943, Clifford Hornby, Rural Amateur, page 126:

     The Cricketers, being only twenty feet from the benettled tip of my small triangular garden , had now become “ my pub , ” although I still spent my Saturday nights in the Elephant .

Anagrams

• nettlebed