bine

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America

From bind (noun).

Bing’d out bien Morts and toure, and toure, Bing out of the Rome vile bine, And toure the Cove that cloy’d your duds, Upon the Chates to trine.’ (From’The English Rogue.’ London, 1665.) — The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
For, just as I was twisting the bine of my very last faggot, before tucking the cleft tongue under, there came three men outside the hedge, where the western light was yellow; and by it I could see that all three of them carried firearms. — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
A man is master of his art when he can write— Come in | to the gar | den, Maud || For the black | bat, night, | has flown || And the wood | bine spi | ces are waf | ted abroad || And the musk | of the rose | is blown || With respect to the final -en, it should be further noted— (1) That it is sometimes fully pronounced, as in ll. — The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D., Unknown

common hop, common hops, European hop, Humulus lupulus

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