brier
/ˈbraɪər/
noun
- A thorny plant or shrub, especially a wild rose or similar prickly bush.
- She carefully pulled the brier away from her sleeve before it tore the fabric.
- I got scratched by a brier while walking through the overgrown field.
- The garden was full of briers that made it hard to reach the old fence.
- A pipe for smoking tobacco, made from the root of the brier plant (Erica arborea).
- She bought her father a new brier for his birthday because his old one was cracked.
- He packed his favorite brier with aromatic tobacco before settling into his chair.
- The antique shop had a collection of carved brier pipes from the 19th century.