The Only Use of
nettle
in
Fahrenheit 451
- Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks, fully aware of his entire body, his face, his mouth, his eyes stuffed with blackness, his ears stuffed with sound, his legs prickled with burrs and nettles, he saw the fire ahead.
p. 138..9nettles = irritating hairs from certain types of plantseditor's notes: On standardized tests, you are more likely to see another sense of nettle which means "to annoy" as in "Don't nettle your sister," or "...my nettlesome little sister."
Definition:
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(nettle as in: beware of nettles near the river) a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs