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dock leaves
noun
Plural of dock leaf
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Its tall leaves are reminiscent of dock leaves but their fiery, rather than bitter taste helps to distinguish it from dock.
Turkeys, as well as being the most fascinating creatures to watch, love eating stinging nettles and dock leaves, so they can prove useful as ground clearers if you fancy rearing Christmas dinner.
When you get paid by the mile, four hours at the loading dock leaves just six driving hours, so many drivers do not log these hours in the book.
At her twice-yearly Dinner To Dye For events, she gives participants strips of silk and lets them loose on tables heaving with steaming saucepans of dock leaves, elderflowers, rhubarb, onion skins and cow parsley.
… He moves on to my ears, a kiss that makes my nipples stand erect, and me emit little moans that drown out to my own ears the loud, distracting sound of Cumberbatch swiping dock leaves and tearing nettles and long grasses very close to the rickety stoop.
Who wants to be on a night out surrounded by blokes who look like arthritic extras in Dawn of the Dead semi-skanking around the place, stumbling into bass-bins, trying to roll fags out of dock leaves and gravel, talking to themselves about the nanny state?
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He stepped out of the dock, leaving behind four white roses from a well-wisher and his green sick bucket.
The boat-dwellers say this will allow luxury condominiums to rise at the marinas where they dock, leaving them without their boat slips.
There appears to be no bass whatsoever, but that could just be the tinny iPod dock (left) provided by the album's publicists at the playback for this review.
Maps of Mahagonny rain down from the ceiling, informing us that it lies some 21,516km west of Hamburg, though the plan of streets and docks leaves no doubt as to where we actually are.
They draw us to the same bars in the fading light of each Sunday afternoon, after most people have tied off at the docks, leaving the evening's fish to my crew.
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