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Definition of Birdlimed
1. birdlime [v] - See also: birdlime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birdlimed
Literary usage of Birdlimed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Hundred Æesop's Fables by Aesop, George Fyler Townsend, Harrison Weir, J. Greenaway (1867)
"... and did not move from it, on account of the deliciousness of its berries.
A Fowler observing her staying so long in one spot, having well birdlimed Ms ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Being a Classified Collection of the Chief by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne (1889)
"... that sticks upon them; and, when it is gotten in, it is so entangled there (as
though the wings of it wen birdlimed over) that it cannot flie out again. ..."
3. American Journal of Education (1866)
"Ask them if this discipline has prevented them from running headlong into the
follies and vices of the age— from being birdlimed by dissipation—or caught in ..."
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