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birdlime
birdlime is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
- 2transitive verb
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
- 3noun
a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
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- 4verb
spread birdlime on branches to catch birds
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